Non vien si tardi il mal che non sia presto.
XLIII, 5
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
“Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Being Late http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21366/Being_Late <br class="br">From the poems written in English
“You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Culture
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
Variant: You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
“Humility, if it comes at all, almost always comes too late.”
Stephen R. Lawhead (1950) American writer
Source: Merlin
“Regrets are illuminations come too late.”
Joseph Campbell book The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces
“Glory paid to ashes comes too late.”
Cineri gloria sera venit.
Martial book Epigrammata
I, 25, line 8.
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
“cleverness that comes too late is hardly cleverness at all?”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel
Source: Clockwork Angel
“The right words always seemed to come too late.”
Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
