A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.
Murray Kempton (1917-1997) American journalist.
(Attributed)
Generally attributed to Kempton (though sometimes as being about editorial writers rather than critics) without specific citation. More on this quote here.
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Counsel is irksome when the Matter is past Remedy.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs (compiler), # 1181 (1732)
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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1860), “Considerations by the Way,” The Conduct of Life, ch. 7
(Source)
Based on a course of lectures by that name first delivered in Pittsburg, 1851-03.
