Más vale tarde que nunca.
“Better late than never.”
Doing something after a delay is still better than never doing it at all.
— Traditional Nicaragua Wisdom, Nicaragua
Source: Traditional Nicaraguan proverb, shared Spanish-speaking oral tradition, public-domain
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