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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Alexander Graham Bell

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Benjamin Franklin

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

John Updike

We grow too soon old and too late smart.

Dutch Proverb

Late-learning, I think, is the desire for learning inconsistent with one's advanced age.

Theophrastus

It is better to learn late than never.

Publilius Syrus

We cannot play with fire. We have warned from the start that the ibis should not be here. Now it is nearly too late.

Matthieu Vaslin

She decided to issue a formal denial through a public notary in the city, but by then it was too late. Nobody believed her.

Mario Gonzalez

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Henry David Thoreau

Oh, war shill we go w'en de great day comes, / Wid be blowin' er de trumpits en de bangin' er de drums? / How many po' sinners'll be kotched out late / En find no latch ter de golden gate?

Joel Chandler Harris

I threw strikes and was able to go late in the game. And the defense was outstanding.

Shawn Chacon

I got here late in the game. We did not realize this bill would fly by so fast.

Laura Simon

Version 3 came out in late December and we've already upgraded the bulk of our clients. Every single one took less than a day to implement.

Roger Strain

Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

Thomas Gray

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.

Seymoure Cray

It's a little late for them to come in here and dictate the timing of our election.

Rep. Randy Hinshaw

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

Daniel Defoe

We didn't change speeds much late in the game. We let him go after people. He threw strikes and we hit the ball really well.

Joe Hughes

I caught it a little late, ... I was trying to make a really good kick. I got it a little high and a little outside.

John Kasay

Our blockers were late on her. If we could have gotten hands on her (shots) we could've stopped her, but we couldn't even get our hands on her, because our blockers weren't anticipating.

Bertha Ortiz

He writes, to me, more like the late Roger Miller than anyone before him.

Hazel Smith

I don't think we're in danger of going back to the kind of cycles of the '70s or the late '80s. I think the economy is still quite flexible.

Alan Levenson

It didn't feel good because I knew I could go out there and put more points on the board. Our offensive line had it moving late in the first half. When you can't get back in there, it hurts.

Darius Beaty

They got in late. If they were a team that came on earlier, I probably would have considered them.

Tony Delk

I don't feel it was a 5-1 game. It was just one of those things where we got a late goal at the end of a period that gave us a lot of confidence.

Brendan Flaherty

I thought we would have (tied the game). But it doesn't matter now. It's too late.

Drew Tate

The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.

Kurt Vonnegut

So many people don't think about home security until it's too late, until after someone has broken into their home. That's when we get the call.

Sue Phillips

She has the best work ethic. She puts in a lot of extra effort and stays late after work to get things done – and she does that on her own – no one asks her to.

Andre Walker

I've said all along we weren't going to reach our potential until late January or early February. That's what I'd been insisting even through those four games, which were four difficult losses. I think we'll be OK.

Matt Brady

During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

Henri Cartier bresson

These were unsupervised juveniles on campus late at night. They had a spray can in hand and were just messing around.

Marianna Villaescusa

Someone donated the money for the tickets and he and Cathy Holland will be arriving in Atlanta late Saturday night.

Debra Martin

In the late '90s, if you bought the dip you made money. Then the crash came in 2000-01, If you bought the dips then you just got run over.

Andy Brooks

We let them off the hook. You hate to be in control late and then tie it up on an own goal.

Randy Thoreson

Most of the steel customers ran their inventories down very hard late last year.

Clarence Morrison

He was here until mid- to late morning.

William Powanda

Getting the bands in the fist place because we started late ... it was a challenge. I'm not saying it was easy but (organizing) it went smoothly.

Sarah Wood

It is better too be wrong to soon than right too late.

Yuri A. Gagarin

How can you be late when you don't have to work?

Paul Holmes

Although small, this represents Jamaica's most rapid economic expansion since the late 1980s.

Alex Ibrahim

They did a nice job on him. A lot of those points came late.

Chris Shoemaker

Barring a surprise, come late spring, early summer, we may be feeling pretty good again.

Paul Mcmanus

Anxiety about the future never profits; we feel no evil until it comes, and when we feel it, no counsel helps; wisdom is either too early or too late.

Arthur Somers Roche

If a company does get caught, it's too late to go out and buy the software, ... Otherwise there's no incentive for companies to deal with this on their own. We make it expensive for the companies that get caught.

Bob Kruger

I just ask that they please, please do something before it's too late.

Shawn Teeters

They've been playing really well of late. Nobody expected them to be here. There's nobody I'd rather play.

Ben Uzoh

Chamber music has been around for hundreds of years. It was first performed in the late 15th and early 16th century.

Roy Malan

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

Judith Viorst

You can't miss out on those chances. It is too late in the playoffs and a good team will make you pay.

Travis Dotterer

As of late last night, we have been in all parts of the city, ... We have liberated the city of Falluja.

John Sattler

Being that late in the shootout, I didn't feel any pressure. The first three guys have all the pressure to score.

Antti Laaksonen

It's been a long season and its hard to get up for an event so late in the year.

Michelle Perry

He had a solid race. He always does this. He's good at bringing his very best late in the season.

Gary Towne

I take my hat off to how dedicated he is to the sport. He's always staying late at practice.

Joe Kosman

It's the effect of metal prices. There's been a big move since late last year.

Chuck Bradford

I'm looking forward to turning 30. I feel like I've been in my late 20s forever.

Jonny Lee Miller

It's too late for that, Doc. What about you, Anna Lee?

Dorothy Smith

Virtually every bus headed Downtown was affected. Some routes were 45 or more minutes late because of the arena event.

Bob Grove

You have to take care of your heart, and you have to start doing it now, or it's going to be too late.

Barbara Allen

It definitely was a late start. It was kind of a beginning year for them.

Nick Rodriguez

We really fought and scraped and finished the first half well, which we hadn't done of late. But the first few minutes of the second half – they were just too much.

Beth Burns

The future's bright here. Things should come together by late this year or early next.

Jim Crawley

I wasn't really sure what to expect coming into the season. I knew David had talent, but I certainly didn't expect him to be undefeated this late in the season.

Don Cooley

The dollar has been drawing buyers since late last week, and there's no change in that trend ahead of the FOMC.

Takeshi Iba

I sat her one time, just to make an example out of her. It was on a Saturday and she came to practice late. We had to call her and wake her up.

Gary Crane

I can't imagine he would have stayed up so late the night before a Test match.

Michael Atherton

Moving up doesn't bother me, ... but the only thing I'd be concerned about is the football staff has their plans together, and it is difficult to have to make changes this late in the game.

Damon Evans

It's nice but a little frustrating at the same time. It kind of got too late.

Royce Clayton

As always he had a good performance. He comes along late in the race. He knows what he is doing.

Roger Mchone

This is a very minor change. The trains have been getting to the intermediate stations a little bit late.

Patrick Waldron

Mainly, all of the moisture will be falling Friday afternoon through late Saturday.

Jamie Smith

Hell is truth seen too late - duty neglected in its season.

Tryon Edwards

Is it too late for me?

Steve Begin

I just never put myself in position -- I'm always late.

Michael Sweetney

Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

We started to get to him late in the game but we couldn't push runs across.

Mark Krause

Our hope is that we'll have the lease at some point late this fall.

Bill Collins

Late in the game, one on one like that, very few players can defend him.

Adrian Hurley

It's easier to get this stuff in place and not need it than be too late.

Dan Ware

It is never too late to become what we might have been.

George Eliot

That wasn't for me. Next time I have to be somewhere fast, I'll just be late.

Pat Julmiste

Late at night is usually when airlines load new fares and discount existing ones.

Laurie Berger

From what I understand. . . in terms of his activities in the late 1990s, he really wasn't on the radar then.

Karen Ernst

Early detection is everything. Late cancers don't do well, early cancers do.

Paul Dugan

It's not too late to register for the run or the parade.

Diane Maddox

That's back on the books for late spring.

Dena Jackson

I'm selling all the time to guys in their mid- to late 40s.

Rod Phillips

He's a force inside and you could see late how he can take over a game. If we hadn't contained him early, this game could have gone the other way.

Chris Hines

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Bill Vaughn

He phoned us up late last year and said he was going to make this change, ... and we said, 'If you make the change, we'll take you off the list.' .

Steve Linford

We certainly played well enough to win, but we have to learn how to finish. If we were the ones down and tied it late, it would be a good point, but this was disappointing.

Mike York

I think you're going to see them by mid-to late March.

Benjamin Feingold

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

Tallulah Bankhead

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

William Dean Howells

I would have been happy beforehand with a 1-1, but not looking at the whole match and when we are ahead 1-0 that late.

Peter Neururer

It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.

Marcel Achard

It was frustrating. We knew we could play with them if we could handle their pressure, and we couldn't there late in the first half. Then we just didn't show up in the second half.

Caleb Holmes

She doesn't miss practice. She stays late and does everything that's asked of her.

Jesse Reynolds

The Coptic Church is spread around the world, we came to Brazil quite late.

Aghason Anba Paul

If he's late for practice, I'm responsible. He can ask me about anything, even if it has nothing to do with the band.

Jim Fitzsimmons

It would be too late for containment.

Hitoshi Oshitani

For a new company to come into this space right now, it's going to be tough. It may be too late for them.

Jill Stelfox

The Special Olympics is for anyone ages 8 to 99 and it's not too late for them to turn in their entry form.

Connie Thomason

In our effort to improve service we are monitoring all late deliveries. Our target is to get our deliveries completed by (5 p.m.) but no later than (6 p.m.).

Mike Cannone

I got there a little late, and it was my first time at Yankee Stadium and it was a big deal. I was in awe of the place.

Rick Aguilera

Frankly I don't follow Indian athletics to a great extent but I do know that it has started to pick up a bit of late. Five years hence, I expect Indian athletes to be a force to reckon with.

Daley Thompson

They made a late run, and we got it back to two. We could have won, but they managed to make that final run to hold on.

Matt Barnes

They came out hard and we didn't. It was a war out there and they played like it. We came on a little in the third, but it was too late.

Mark Kress

It's too late for our service (committee, which met Jan. 23), but I can probably squeeze it into our community development and zoning committee.

Jim Watercutter

We've been working since the late '80s to get 49 widened. This will be an uphill battle.

Dan Landon

We have to learn from our mistakes. It's getting late in the season to keep saying that.

Danny Valencia

I had a hard time squaring the ball up. A couple of guys said the last time they faced him he didn't have such late movement.

Walter Young

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

Paul Theroux

Melrose had a great first half, and we did not. We settled down in the second half and played better, but it was too late.

Phil Carlson

We'll see a few flurries late tonight and some colder temperatures.

Jennifer Schack

They beat us soundly. I was very pleased with our effort in the second half. We kept chipping away and played well late in the game when we they could have bagged it.

Dan Fink

It happened for a reason. She was a week late. She was supposed to be a Christmas baby.

Wendy Lavallo

You would think that with Microsoft coming, that the small vendors would collapse. But Microsoft is really, really late.

Tom Bittman

These guys are going to make you pay if you're in the box all night, and unfortunately we didn't figure that out until it was too late.

Sean Hill

We did the hard part late - got the steals - we just couldn't convert.

Buff Hochman

I think it's clear that in March, when the invasion took place, the evidence that had been brought forward was rapidly falling apart, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

Hans Blix

It sounds like it's a little late, but I'm glad they are [adding codes].

Michael Turbyfill

We certainly had some opportunities to win. We hit a couple of posts late in the game. It was a tough loss.

Shaun Hart

We were always a step behind or a step late.

Neal Wolfrath

In terms of being late or not starting at all, then it's never too late.

Alison Headley

We had three attempts to tie the game late with all having good looks. They just didn't fall for us.

Gary Munsen

Sanford was phenomenal. He kept us in the game and he's been doing that of late. We should have come away with two points.

Dean Mcammond

Our real knowledge really only goes back to the late 1960s. We have to base our best decisions on that limited knowledge.

Jon Sjoberg

We're looking at late spring or early summer to deliver the lots to the builders.

Jim Cheney

He has always had an open-door policy. He really cares about his students and would work with them until late.

Rene Maldonado

I'm just looking for people who are energetic and will work those late hours. It will be a fun place to work.

Phil Biston

We talked about getting off to a good start in the second half, and we did. We kept our composure late.

Aaron Christian

We knew he could shoot the 3. We were late sometimes getting out to contest the shot. He knocked it down, so I give him credit for making good shots.

Josh Duncan

Unless it's down in the teens, we're actually bringing outside air in to cool it off a little bit. And if they're down by two, late in the game, it really does get hot.

Bill Owen

They have been renewed year to year, but Congress is running late.

Paul Gada

I am not sure why it was a big problem, but obviously it was because he has to get his touches, especially late in the game.

Wes Miller

We hope the list will be adopted very soon, late this year or early next year.

Rupert Krietemeyer

I am grateful for the help but it was a little too late to speed up my preparation for the Commonwealth Games .

Sheena Gooding

You can't make too big of a deal out of it. But any time you play the Angels this late in the season and it means something, it's fun.

Kirk Saarloos

Now, this incident has many worrying about their safety in these downtown garages late at night.

Jessica D'onofrio

After four days we should have a very good idea of what we can expect when the real work site is established in late September.

John Hannah

It definitely gave me some more exposure. I doubt I would have been able to get a Division I scholarship without our late push in the playoffs.

Mark Payne

I got smashed - late - and that was it.

Craig Gower

The bottom line is Craig went out on his terms and he should do so with his head held high. It's better to go out too soon in this business than too late.

Don Lucia

Late Show With David Letterman .

Dick Clark

Bernie: I'm sorry I am so late. Bollocksed up at work again, I fear. Millions down the drain.

Notting Hill

We did the hard part hitting back from 3-1 to tie the game at 3-3 but then undid all our good work by conceding two late goals.

Martin Hodge

We will be open late on Christmas Eve as well. And... the post office will be delivering on Christmas Day.

Michael Miles

I got there just a second late but he had me beat anyway, ... so I just came off and turned and threw. I got lucky. I appreciate it, Jones.

Mike Wood

Its never too late to have a happy childhood.

Tom Robbins

I don't think we are late to the party. I would already have liked to do it.

Charles O. Prince Iii

If I remember correctly, it was a day in late August and it was about 85 - 85 and sunny.

Mike Zimmerman

Our history, not only in this state, but in most places, was not captured. It's something that's rather late, but we need to do it.

Bob Harris

It has made Anaheim the laughingstock of the country - (on) late-night TV, cartoons, ESPN.

Andrew Guilford

We knew (the rain) was coming. I think we should have been more mentally prepared to hit. It was too little, too late.

Clint Wheeler

We thought this one was it. But we can't respond late in games and it's really frustrating.

Gabrielle Richards

Those two could close ... as late as the end of (this) month.

Robin Reibel

I often leave work anywhere up to five hours late.

Karen Roberts

Yorkville was shooting lights out and they took advantage early. But we hung around and got that run late in the first to get back in it.

Brandon D'amico

My hat's off to her. She did one heck of a job out there. A lot of other girls wouldn't have played. Late in the game though, she was tired and it started to hurt again.

Craig Faire

I think our kids have tried really hard, and played really hard. There?s just been times late in crucial games when we haven?t executed.

Kirby Dean

The Syrian investigation is too little, too late. It lacks credibility, as all the judges will be appointed by the state. It would have been better to use independent judges or international advisors.

Sami Moubayed

Arrived too late. Act already done.

Nostradamus

It just seemed like an eternity before they got everything going. It was sad. By the time they had the hoses going, it was too little, too late.

Stephen Dorff

It should be easy to connect Microsoft to Microsoft. The bottom line is they have to do it and they're kind of late.

Laurie Mccabe

(Bush) is a selfish president and we're fed up. I'm going to be (at the protests) early and stay late. ... I'll camp out if I have to.

Daniel Pendergrass

It looked like a mirror image of our boys' game, except we couldn't make shots late.

Larry Hoff

I was just trying to keep the inning going so we could have a chance. We did a poor job early in the game but were able to come on late.

Matt Anderson

I don't know what we are going to do to find more speed. If I try to drive the car faster, I end up braking too late and take the corner too wide. It's disappointing, but we'll do our best tomorrow.

Bjorn Wirdheim

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Jean Paul Sartre

For 30 years (the late) Johnny Warren talked about an English 'mafia' in Australian coaching.

Craig Foster

It's one of the best things that ever happened to me, even if it was late.

Ralph Stanley

I'd much prefer to have a lot of allies out there, both in the Middle East and in Western Europe, ... Late Edition.

James Inhofe

There's been a lot of activity as of late.

Webster Franklin

It's always been an issue that when the curtain goes down, it is a mad dash. There really shouldn't be a need for that mad dash. This will allow people to grab a bite after the show. We're encouraging people to stay late and enjoy.

Cristyne L. Nicholas

There's meetings planned for mid- to late May that will be dealing with the issue of how FEMA should be reformed and what options the House should consider.

Charlie Keller

It has never been a day late or a dollar short, ... But now, that guaranteed benefit is being threatened by a fabricated crisis and a false solution.

John Salazar

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

Mark Poster

We got word that our [fan] bus was supposed to leave at 6:15 a.m. and they didn't leave until a quarter to 7. So we knew they were going to be a little late.

Jeff Cavallo

I'd hesitate to characterize this is as comparable to what was going on in the late 1990s. Not every Internet stock is doing well.

Scott Kessler

We caught up with the whalers again late last night and saw seven whale carcasses on the deck.

Shane Rattenbury

The bulk of our applications come in from November to the end of January, but there are some that will still come in as late as May.

Michael Dickson

It was a great game at Hull, we had a tremendous night but conceded a late goal when we should have beaten them.

Peter Taylor

Certainly after the 9-0 run late it took the wind out of our sails.

Greg Garmen

Our big lesson from Iraq was that we got there too late. A lot of things had already happened.

James Mitchell

They responded inappropriately and very late to the acute problems he was having in the hospital.

Rick Fried

Though our contest is over, it's never too late to recycle.

Ron Montgomery

No-money-down home purchases used to be the kind of thing you only saw on late night TV.

Keith Gumbinger

It's too late. It's too late.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

The difference was that they were able to score baskets in the paint late in the game.

Sean Brown

Then the idea of this fake death came out very late in the game and we rewrote it.

Howard Gordon

We didn't decide to do this race until real late. Everybody on the No. 8 car and the No. 1 car chipped in and helped build this thing.

Paul Menard

It definitely showed the fight in us when we came back that late in the game.

Leslie Huntington

No. 3 represents technology at its best in the late 19th century.

Mova Verde

It's too late to (drastically) change stuff, ... I just need to get that feeling back. I've tried something every day to try to make adjustments. But I feel great.

Craig Counsell

This was a good win for us, even though our bats cooled off significantly. We failed to make some adjustments until late in the game, but we wanted to go into the vacation week at 3-0, and we accomplished that goal.

Jeff Kane

We were running late to the show.

Dave Barth

John came to us late. We already were way involved in our punt protection. He was a backup in that regard. But we had an opening on kickoff coverage.

Jeff Reinebold

Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

Chuck Norris