"Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."
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"I came to teaching late - not until my forties - which is one reason why I'm not burned out."
"I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better."
"Family hang-outs can go very late into the night and involve lots of music."
"Better three hours too soon, than one hour to late."
"Too early seen unknown, and known too late!"
"I stay out too late, got nothing in my brain."
"The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open."
"During the late war I had an infallible rule for deciding what Great Britain would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they ought to do, and to take the reverse of that as what they would assuredly do, and I can say with truth that I was never deceived."
"He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living."
"Don't be late to the theater. The opening scene is a goody."
"- I don't want you to love me. - Too late, mi chava."
"To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain."
"Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge."
"All office workers are afraid of being late for work."
"The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century."
"I start work around 8 a.m. and usually finish around noon. If there's more to do, I do it in the late afternoon, although that isn't prime time for me."
"It's funny to be pigeonholed so late in life but there we are."
"We are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to."
"The '80s was wild compared to my real small childhood, which was late '70s."