Late

Famous quotes containing the word late:

“Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

“One who does not study hard when young will find it too late for regret when old.”
—Chinese proverb.

“I date the end of the old republic and the birth of the empire to the invention, in the late thirties, of air conditioning. Before air conditioning, Washington was deserted from mid-June to September.... But after air conditioning and the Second World War arrived, more or less at the same time, Congress sits and sits while the presidents—or at least their staffs—never stop making mischief.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)