Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant"

• The day I realized what being alive was
• The Day the World was about to End
• And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
• It was too late by the time the robots came and I couldn't, I just couldn't
• Angered about bias, I wrote a paper. I discovered that I too am biased.
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• Being Asian is rather like having large breasts
• The virgin was looking apprehensive about the whole ordeal, but for the right amount of cash anyone will take on a horse
• I never remembered my dreams until they started being about you
• I met a girl in the garden who was doomed to die the next day.
• Days Too Short
• This lasted for about two days
• Your radical ideas about every point being the center of the universe have already occurred to others
• Pete Townshend was right about Saddam Hussein
• I just submit to one or two days of horror for going out and playing at being a normal functioning person
• Please say it's not too late now that I'm dead and gone
• Ship Arriving too Late to Save a Drowning Witch
• little pieces of her tragically poetic attempts at being loved that she was startlingly aware of, today
• this was supposed to be a parable about the power of the imagination
• God was in the west too, at one time.
• Tell me a story about a burro, standing atop a mesa, surrounded by a flock of geese, being fed by a weathered old man wearing nothing but a Jimmy hat
• Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend's Too Stupid to Know About
• Being queer is about being you
• It's hard to be enthusiastic about reading and books with someone that openly admits to being a bad reader
• I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
• It is her name that I think of when I think about being in love.
• I was wrong as a child, to think old people were stupid for asking me where the day had gone. Now I understand... we older people do not live.
• Food was purer in the good old days
• The day we were married the leftover doves from his days of being a magician hummed little love songs in the attic
• It Was a Beautiful Day When Aunt Norma Died
• too little too late
• Long day, all I wanted was a cup of tea
• A day late and a dollar short
• Waiting for the day all my dreams about myself get tested
• The beggar who was too rich for my money
• in the morning it was almost too dead center
• There's nothing noble about being a soldier
• I Had Already Quit That Job About 20 Days Ago...in my mind, anyway
• It's too early to talk about God, or women
• This was the shinest golden dollar I would ever see in my life and I was not about to tarnish it.
• It's never too soon to start lying to your kids about drugs
• I was wrong about the color changing; your eyes are brown
• It was always about words
• he looks a little like you... so i would rather talk about other pretty girls
• I wonder when I learned to smile when I was being hurt
• did i really change the way you think about everything? was it the chemicals in your brain?
• What if Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?
• lots of small things can fill up a day without you even being aware of it
• I was a father for a few days
• the light too bright, the day too long
• Upon the hills where day was done
• The day I found out I was a guy
• play at a game of constantly being wrong with a priceless set of vocabularies
• They say it's never too late
• It was late when he came home; it woke you up
• All it said was clump and scratch, and it only said those very late at night.
• I was tired. It was late. She was Russian.
• Too Late
• A virtuous woman was a manly woman, in the womanly fashion of being manly
• Your radical ideas about this being like David Foster Wallace have already occurred to others.
• How Eulenspiegel, along with the other boys, was made to eat too much bread
• I was adored once too
• strange and too short but I was lonely
• If I was a woman I'd be a feminist too
• all day I dream about sex
• Every poem about thunder was written under the protection of a roof, or, at the very least, an empty sky
• Too many songs about Superman. Not enough songs about Batman.
• "I was surprised to hear about the cat."
• The music in my head is too loud to think about anything but you
• About Being Different
• And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep?
• A late night poem about nostalgia
• Tell me a story about being really undead
• It is a strange thing to wake up every day and do things you care nothing about
• Do men think about sex all day long?
• Tell me a story about being really alive
• Something was about to happen.
• I want to hear about his day in person
• "What *should* we be worried about?"; or how too many cooks make a statistically average soup
• This moment will never come again. Would you rather enjoy it or complain about it?
• how life is all about loving and being loved
• Being serious without taking yourself too seriously
• Jesus said, "I love him, for he is my brother." He was talking about everyone.
• The time they fantasize about was built on a lie
• The bored who complain
• The cult leader poured himself a drink and started on about his plans, and I wondered how the priest was getting on
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• If you become lucid, you realize history's greatest literature was being written as you read it ...by yourself.
• So I was cold chillin on the corner on a hot summer's day
• Music was better in the old days
• I was me before being me was cool.
• A Nocturnal Upon Saint Lucy's Day, being the Shortest Day
• I was Christian for a day
• The other day I saw a gas station called Space Age! I was not fooled!
• The Day Earth Was Born
• There was a cold day
• It was a green field and a pleasant day
• Days when art is too much to bear
• And in those days was armageddon
• Christ Was Born on Christmas Day
• being a kid was great
• the good days are killing me too
• Too many of my days are spent stuffing my cheeks with food and crash landing in the ocean.
• It is never too late to be what you would have been
• It's never too late
• It's Too Late Now
• It's too late to say you're sorry
• The day I was showering with two black men
• Too little, and far too late
• Too late for dignity
• The avalanche has already started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote
• too late now (user)
• Perils of being too good at your job
• I'd love to go back to the late 80's and tell them about our time
• I was alone for too long
• She was too beautiful to be human
• Death was a part of me then, too.
• I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
• I set my sister up with her husband, and all I got was this great dress and a trip to Hawaii
• The Tale of a Youth who set out to learn what Fear was
• Things I hate about being a conservative Republican
• Let's Talk About Feelings
• What About Bob?
• We only care about the cute animals, everything else is food
• What is this crap about trick-or-treating on Saturday?
• Feeling bad about a good deed
• The good thing about using a horribly outdated file system
• about nobody (superdoc)
• Tell me a story about trains
• about an Alice
• precision vs. accuracy
• John Cassavettes Was No Help At All
• about box
• Things my mom doesn't argue with me about anymore
• The Trick About Thawing Grapes
• The secret truth about the PalmPilot
• One good thing about gangs
• What do girls think about guys who think about what other people think about girls and what they do?
• About Koji - A Starter For Making Saké
• A Story About Magic
• You sad cookie, you CARE more about filthy rich pretty people you'll never meet
• You forget about everything for a few months and everything changes
• Conventional views about human cloning
• The cluelessness of the press when writing about computer crime
• Think About Mutation
• What do you think about Human Clothing?
• Don't talk about your mamma like that
• I'm passionate about my plant life
• Everything you wanted to know about hamsters, and then some!
• What We Talk about When We Talk About Love
• The Girl from Ipanema
• Help me tell you a story about things and yourself, without pants
• A joke about tax collectors
• Quotes about robotic dinosaurs
• Your radical ideas about society, individualism, and religion have already occurred to others
• I don't acknowledge your existence either. Don't worry about it.
• Your radical ideas about religion as a mechanism of social control have already occurred to others
• I don't give a DAMN about your character
• More Songs About Buildings and Food
• LPPR: Illegal Speech About Drugs
• You are the kind of girl my mother warned me about
• Doctors know nothing about drugs
• What Little I Know About Ingredients For Thai Cuisine
• Stories about the injury of male genitalia
• Something about parts of you
• The Joy of Pair Bonding: Talking About Sex
• All About Touching

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