Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy.
Aldrich Ames

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.
Aldrich Ames

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
Jeanette Winterson

Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.
Sophia Bush

I missed the boat when I was doing Late Night.
Chris Elliott

How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time.
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
Oliver Goldsmith

Better late than never.
Matthew Henry

It was fun. That was something I came to fairly late.
Michael Chabon

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.
Minor White

It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal.
Edward Thorndike

A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know.
Kenneth Clark

We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris.
Eric Morecambe

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.
Glenn Tipton

My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental.
Eva Gabor

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

It is too late; now I wish I could live.
John Buford

It is never too late to fall in love.
Sandy Wilson

I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.
Olivier Martinez