Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
MARTIAL Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Glory paid to our ashes comes too late
MARCUS AURELIUS To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
MARTIAL Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
[Lat., Cineri gloria sera est.]
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Those glories come too late
That on our ashes wait.
RICHARD LOVELACE When opportunity comes, it’s too late to prepare.
JOHN WOODEN When a thing is done, advice comes too late
ROMANIAN PROVERB Wednesday's glory had become Thursday's ashes.
DAVID PIETRUSZA Too late always comes too early. She
STEPHEN KING Death always comes too early or too late.
ENGLISH PROVERB To many fame comes too late.
LUIS DE CAMOENS Everything comes at the right time, but if the right time is too late to be patient, go earlier befo...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON It's never too late to do anything new when it comes to music.
SIVAMANI But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate,
When we lock up our lives for wealth, t...
WILL CARLETON But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the...
WILL CARLETON The absolute negative, the ultimate saying of no to the world, when it is just too late. And always ...
DON BERRY Anxiety about the future never profits; we feel no evil until it comes, and when we feel it, no coun...
RUCKETT Anxiety about the future never profits; we feel no evil until it comes, and when we feel it, no coun...
ARTHUR SOMERS ROCHE Often when we realize how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because ...
CECELIA AHERN But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate,
When we lock up our lives for wealth,...
WILL CARLETON Since sorrow never comes too late
And happiness too swiftly flies.
THOMAS GRAY Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
ELBERT HUBBARD He who is not in readiness to-day, will be less prepared
to-morrow.
MRS. MANLEY He says anything that first comes into his mouth.
MRS. MANLEY Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey,
and brevity.
MRS. MANLEY Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so
will pains.
MRS. MANLEY Be cheerful, if you are wise.
MRS. MANLEY Acerra always drinks till dawn.
MRS. MANLEY A novice always behaves with propriety.
MRS. MANLEY No time like the present.
MRS. MANLEY When people do think about it is when the warm weather hits and it's too late. But it's not too late...
JANET CANGEMI It's never too late but late when you give up your goals in Life.
CHARITY RAPHAEL The problem with comprehension is, it often comes too late.
RASMENIA MASSOUD We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It's too late for us, but it is not too late for other women and children who are experiencing abuse...
MARC LANOIS The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still
And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove,
...
JAMES BEATTIE Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
FELIX FRANKFURTER Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late
FELIX FRANKFURTER I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M Nought venture nought have.
JOHN HEYWOOD We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too...
PETER ABRAHAMS Nought may endure but Mutability.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I haven't really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that i...
SCOTT BAKULA Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The way we are doing this now is too late.
HITOSHI OSHITANI It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater ...
MARCEL ACHARD Its risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater r...
MARCEL ACHARD Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory.
MARCUS GARVEY there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this CHARLES BUKOWSKI I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It's too late to change the world, but, hopefully it's not too late to change ourselves.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS It's a heartache Nothing but a heartache Hits you when it's too late Hits you when you're down
BONNIE TYLER When You Live Life Too Early, You Learn Life Too Late.
O. S. HICKMAN We want to make a late season rush and be playing our best baseball when that time comes.
CHAD LOGAN Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
DOUGLAS JERROLD I was such a late bloomer when it comes to fashion.
DEBRA MESSING Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
DOUGLAS JERROLD If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER Is it ever too late for a sequel?
GARY GOETZMAN There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
OG MANDINO From the ashes [...] we are arisen.
LAINI TAYLOR A man only appreciates happiness when he gets married, but by then it is too late.
FRANK SINATRA The second half, we finally got it after a little bit, but it was too little, too late.
BRIAN MACY Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
MARY ROBERTS RHINEHART It's too late. It's too late.
ABHISIT VEJJAJIVA No doubt President Jefferson was brilliant - probably the key author of the American constitution. B...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It's not too late to save the Arctic Refuge from devastating oil drilling. We have to make our voice...
BILL MEADOWS Greatness comes not in possessing security, but in withstanding insecurity.
JEFFREY FRY We get too soon old and too late smart.
FRANK KELLY FREAS We grow too soon old and too late smart
DUTCH PROVERB The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.
CLAY AIKEN It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.
NANCY THAYER It's never too late in life to have a genuine adventure.
ROBERT KURSON Dear friends of Haiti, we are indeed on the right track. Slowly but surely we are rising from the as...
LAURENT LAMOTHE When the critics come around it's always too late.
SIR SIDNEY NOLAN I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways...
MARILYN MONROE Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life.
DOUGLAS WILLIAM JERROLD Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
LORD BYRON Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
DAVID JEROLD Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON I believe I will not not die a minute too early or a minute too late, but exactly when I am supposed...
TOBE HANSON It's never too late -- never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
JANE FONDA It's a heartache
Nothing but a heartache
Hits you when it's too late
Hits you when you'r...
BONNIE TYLER In the midst of life we are in death. Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER When the time comes, I will leave without uttering a word. So if you want me to stay, stop the time ...
VIPIN ONGALATHE It was too little, too late. We missed the mark.
BENNIE THOMPSON We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification come...
RICHARD SCHIFF He comes never late who comes repentant.
JUAN DE HOROZCO Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
WALTER DE LA MARE Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
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MRS PATRICK CAMPBELL To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.
MRS HUBBARD DAVIS One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
MRS. HUMPHREY WARD Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee
And cherish'd thine image for years;
Thou hast ta...
MRS. DAVID PORTER Want, the mistress of invention.
MRS. SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own
genius: as he must needs paint for othe...
MRS. ANNA JAMESON And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
MRS. SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE Where are the rough brave Britons to be found
With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
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MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL C" is for colonies
Rightly we boast
that of all the great nations
Great Britain has ...
MRS. ERNEST AMES Yet in that bulb, those sapless scales,
The lily wraps her silver vest,
Till vernal suns and v...
MRS. MARY TIGHE Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of...
MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful
how we confound them.
MRS. ANNA JAMESON Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy!
Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy;
Dreams cannot p...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS A young Apollo, golden haired,
Stands dreaming on the verge of strife,
Magnificently unprepare...
MRS. FRANCES MACDONALD CORNFORD It is to hope, though hope were lost.
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty
universe.
MRS. APHRA JOHNSON BEHN Nearer, my God, to Thee--
Nearer to Thee--
E'en though it be a cross
That raiseth me;
...
MRS. SARAH FLOWER ADAMS What sought they thus afar?
Bright jewels of the mine?
The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?-...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Thank you, pretty cow, that made
Pleasant milk to soak my bread.
ANNE TAYLOR (MRS. GILBERT) In the busy haunts of men.
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS There is a green hill far away,
Without a city wall,
Where the dear Lord was crucified
W...
MRS. CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER So fades a summer cloud away;
So sinks the gale when storms are o'er;
So gently shuts the eye ...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD We pine for kindred natures
To mingle with our own.
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS The breaking waves dashed high
On a stern and rock-bound coast;
And the woods against a stormy...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance
sad, and why are thine eyes red wit...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure....
MRS. CHARLES E. COWMAN Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it...
ANNE TAYLOR (MRS. GILBERT) Cruel Remorse! where Youth and Pleasure sport,
And thoughtless Folly keeps her court,--
Crouc...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD And when 'midst fallen London they survey
The stone where Alexander's ashes lay,
Shall own wit...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Rome, Rome, thou art no more
As thou hast been!
On thy seven hills of yore
Thou sat'st a...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS O beautiful rainbow;--all woven of light!
There's not in thy tissue one shadow of night;
Heave...
MRS. SARAH JOSEPHA HALE Is there not
A tongue in every star that talks with man,
And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes ...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Man is the nobler growth our realms supply
And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Yet, the great ocean hath no tone of power
Mightier to reach the soul, in thought's hushed hour,
...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS By Nebo's lonely mountain,
On this side Jordan's wave,
In a vale in the land of Moab,
Th...
MRS. CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled;
The flame that lit the battle's ...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS There is none,
In all this cold and hollow world, no fount
Of deep, strong, deathless love, sa...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows,
And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs?
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS But hark! what shriek of death comes in the gale,
And in the distant ray what glimmering sail
...
MRS. ANN WARD RADCLIFFE Fair land! of chivalry the old domain,
Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain!
Though not f...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Lightnings, that show the vast and foamy deep,
The rending thunders, as they onward roll,
The ...
MRS. ANN WARD RADCLIFFE I come, I come! ye have called me long,
I come o'er the mountain with light and song:
Ye may ...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Ay, call it holy ground,
The soil where first they trod,
They have left unstained, what there ...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Over the river and through the wood,
To grandfather's house we go;
The horse knows the way
...
MRS. LYDIA MARIA CHILD The wind, the wandering wind
Of the golden summer eyes--
Whence is the thrilling magic
O...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Fair Venus shines
Even in the eye of day; with sweetest beam
Propitious shines, and shakes a t...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Thou hast fair forms that move
With queenly tread;
Thou hast proud fanes above
Thy might...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes
as to fetter the step of Freedom, ...
MRS. LYDIA MARIA CHILD The stately Homes of England,
How beautiful they stand!
Amidst their tall ancestral trees,
...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS There shall be no more snow
No weary noontide heat,
So we lift our trusting eyes
From th...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS If things on earth may be to heaven resembled,
It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.
MRS. APHRA JOHNSON BEHN They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart."
MRS. PAUL M. ELL. She knows omnipotence has heard her prayer
And cries, "It shall be done--sometimes, somewhere."
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MRS. MARY BAKER GLOVER EDDY Though outwardly a gloomy shroud,
The inner half of every cloud
Is bright and shining:
I...
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Once of ethereal spirit full!
This narrow cell was Life's ret...
ANNA JANE VARDILL (MRS. JAMES NIVEN) What shall I do with all the days and hours
That must be counted ere I see thy face?
How shall...
FRANCES ANNE "FANNY" KEMBLE (MRS. BUTLER) His breath like silver arrows pierced the air,
The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet,
...
FRANCES ANNE "FANNY" KEMBLE (MRS. BUTLER) I have known sorrow--therefore I
May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily
Than those who nev...
MRS. FREDERIC J. FAULKS ("THEODOSIA PICKERING GARRISON") Sing away, ay, sing away,
Merry little bird
Always gayest of the gay,
Though a woodland ...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) The buttercups across the field
Made sunshine rifts of splendor.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) A slender young Blackbird built in a thorn-tree:
A spruce little fellow as ever could be;
His ...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) Autumn
Into earth's lap does throw
Brown apples gay in a game of play,
As the equinoctia...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) Sweet April-time--O cruel April-time!
Year after year returning, with a brow
Of promise, and r...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) With faces like dead lovers who died true.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) O how grandly cometh Even,
Sitting on the mountain summit,
Purple-vestured, grave, and silent,...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) Autumn to winter, winter into spring,
Spring into summer, summer into fall,--
So rolls the cha...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night,
They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight,
And...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright,
For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born t...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) The irrevocable Hand
That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut
The portals of our eart...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) To-morrow is, ah, whose?
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) I said to the Nightingale:
"Hail, all hail!
Pierce with thy trill the dark,
Like a glitt...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) I said to the sky-poised Lark:
"Hark--hark!
Thy note is more loud and free
Because there...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen!
Bare long after the rest are green;
But as the tim...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) Forgotten? No, we never do forget:
We let the years go; wash them clean with tears,
Leave the...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) I took the wren's nest;--
Heaven forgive me!
Its merry architects so small
Had scarcely ...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) I said to the brown, brown thrush:
"Hush, hush!
Through the wood's full strains I hear
T...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)