
Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Better late than never.”
Potius sero quam nunquam.
Book IV, sec. 2
History of Rome
“911. Better late than never.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.”
Source: The Man with the Twisted Lip
“It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.”
The Bull from the Sea (1962)
“Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.”
Source: Being Peace
“Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.”
Zwischen zu früh und zu spät, liegt immer nur ein Augenblick.
Jacobowsky und der Oberst : Komödie einer Tragödie in drei Akten (1945), p. 52