52 Belated Quotes

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Famous Belated Quotes

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late? — Lewis Carroll

Better late than never is a bad plan for site reliability. — Cliff Lerner

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. — Ivan Turgenev

Justice delayed is justice denied. — William Ewart Gladstone

Better late than never but never late is better. They tell me time is money well we'll spend it together. — Drake

Those who are late will be punished by life itself. — Mikhail Gorbachev

Death always comes too early or too late. — English Proverbs

Delay is the deadliest form of denial. - C. Northcote Parkinson

Delay is the deadliest form of denial. — C. Northcote Parkinson

You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again. — Benjamin Franklin

It is never too late to be wise. — Daniel Defoe

Justice too long delayed is justice denied. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. - William Shakespeare

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. — William Shakespeare

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late. - Lee Iacocca

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late. — Lee Iacocca

Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think. - Socrates

Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think. — Socrates

You may delay, but time will not. — Benjamin Franklin

Short Belated Quotes

  • A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in. — Irvin S. Cobb
  • At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth. — Leon Askin
  • Suicide is a belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. — H. L. Mencken
  • Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity. — Harold Brodkey
  • An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued. — Irvin S. Cobb
  • Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life. — Gloria Steinem
  • When a decision is taken belatedly, its execution inevitably leads to haste. — Vasily Chuikov
  • Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing. — Jeff Daniels

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More Belated Quotes

I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times. — Jan Egeland

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool. — Paul Gauguin

Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress. — John Milton

Happy belated birthday, Cat," he said, giving me a self-deprecating smile. "Aren't you glad Juan picked the place and not me? We wold have had lattes and hors d'oeuvres instead of liquor and G-strings. Anyone get you a gin yet? — Jeaniene Frost

The reinterpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are that belated objectives of nearly all Psychotherapy — Brock Chisholm

I feel prematurely old. I'm actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I'm turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I've been thinking a lot about mortality. A lot about what I'm going to do with my life and how to enjoy it. One of the things I'm going to work on is being more spontaneous, letting go, embracing the beauty of come-what-may. — Chris Pine

While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor. — Raul Grijalva

He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gas-light of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate. — Edith Wharton

When you hear a person say, "I hate," adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you are dealing with a belated mind. That person may dress like a modern, ride in an automobile, listen to the radio, but his or her mind is properly dated about 1000 B.C. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them. — Diane Duane

With the exception of Obama's belated lame-duck behavior, the US has always, in practice, supported Israel unquestionably. — Lawrence Davidson

I think all the obituaries for newspapers we're hearing are premature. Many papers are belatedly but successfully adapting to the new news environment. I — Arianna Huffington

What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality - the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all of psychotherapy. — Brock Chisholm

belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the unenterprising cautions and timidities of middle age. — Vera Brittain

Writing recently in the New York Times, David Brooks noted correctly if belatedly that conservatives disdain for liberal intellectuals had slipped into disdain for the educated class as a whole, and worried that the Republican Party was alienating educated voters. I couldn't care less about the future of the Republican Party, but I do care about the quality of political thinking and judgment in the country as a whole. — Mark Lilla

The recent upsurge of public concern over environmental questions reflects a belated recognition that man has been too cavalier in his relations with nature. Unless we arrest the depredations that have been inflicted so carelessly on our natural systems-which exist in an intricate set of balances-we face the prospect of ecological disaster. — Richard M. Nixon

The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith... are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. The fact is, that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respectable people have escaped from these moral chains and are able to observe and think freely. — Brock Chisholm

At any rate, that’s how I started running. Thirty three—that’s how old I was then. Still young enough, though no longer a young man. The age that Jesus Christ died. The age that Scott Fitzgerald started to go downhill. That age may be a kind of crossroads in life. That was the age when I began my life as a runner, and it was my belated, but real, starting point as a novelist. — Haruki Murakami

Out of nowhere, Valek appeared before me, yelling in my ear, shaking my shoulders. Stupidly, belatedly, I realized he was the drunk. Who else but Valek could win a fight against four large men when armed only with a beer mug? — Maria V. Snyder

Oh, dear." She let her head fall back to the pillow. "There it went. I've fallen in love with you now." "Just now?" Chuckling, he came to a sitting position, resting his forearm on one bent knee. "Well, thank God for belated blessings." He ran a hand through his hair. "It's been coming on rather longer than that for me." "What?" She sat bolt upright. "What can you mean? Since when?" "From the first, Amelia. From the very first. — Tessa Dare

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