late (n.)

late (v.)

late (adv.)

late (adj.)

Better late than never.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.

Better late than never.

Mathew Henry (1662-1714): Commentaries. Matthew xxi.

It is better to learn late than never.

Publius Syrus (42 b c): Maxim 864.

Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 26.

So we 'll go no more a-roving

So late into the night.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: So we 'll go.

Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 5.

It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.

Pliny The Elder (23-79 a d): Natural History. Book xviii. Sect. 44.

Too late I stayed,—forgive the crime!

Unheeded flew the hours;

How noiseless falls the foot of time

That only treads on flowers.

William Robert Spencer (1770-1834): Lines to Lady A. Hamilton.

He gets through too late who goes too fast.

Publius Syrus (42 b c): Maxim 767.

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