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American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of B… 1904–1991Related quotes
“They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
Attributed to Addison in (K)new Words: Redefine Your Communication (2005), by Gloria Pierre, p. 120, there are no indications of such a statement in Addison's writings.
Misattributed
“Mishaps
How late soe'er they come, come aye too soon.”
Francesco Berni (1497–1535) Italian poet
Non vien si tardi il mal che non sia presto.
XLIII, 5
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
“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.
“Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. ”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer
The Rubaiyat (1120)
“We are born too late to see the beginning, and we did too soon to see the end of many things.”
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751) English politician and Viscount
On the Study and Use of History
Jimmy Carr (1972) British comedian and humourist
Patrick Barkham (September 9, 2006) "Here's Jimmy!: Jimmy Carr as Jack Nicholson in The Shining", The Guardian.
“Gay love, God save it, so soone hotte, so soone colde.”
Nicholas Udall Ralph Roister Doister
Christian Custance, Act IV, sc. viii.
Ralph Roister Doister (c. 1553)