Famous quotes containing the word late:
“Roosevelt could always keep ahead with his work, but I cannot do it, and I know it is a grievous fault, but it is too late to remedy it. The country must take me as it found me. Wasnt it your mother who had a servant girl who said it was no use for her to try to hurry, that she was a Sunday chil and no Sunday chil could hurry? I dont think I am a Sunday child, but I ought to have been; then I would have had an excuse for always being late.”
—William Howard Taft (18571930)
“The fire I praise was once perduring flame
Till it snuffs with our generation out;
No matter, its all one, its but a name
Not as late honeysuckle half so stout....”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“Seven years and six months! Humpty Dumpty repeated thoughtfully. An uncomfortable sort of age. Now if youd asked my advice, Id have said Leave off at sevenMbut its too late now.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)