John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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“Better late than never.”
Potius sero quam nunquam.
Livy (-59–17 BC) Roman historian
Book IV, sec. 2
History of Rome
“911. Better late than never.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.”
Arthur Conan Doyle book The Man with the Twisted Lip
Source: The Man with the Twisted Lip
“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor
Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor
“It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.”
Mary Renault book The Bull from the Sea
The Bull from the Sea (1962)
“Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Source: Being Peace
“Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.”
Franz Werfel book Jacobowsky und der Oberst
Zwischen zu früh und zu spät, liegt immer nur ein Augenblick.
Jacobowsky und der Oberst : Komödie einer Tragödie in drei Akten (1945), p. 52