*Mieux vaut tard que jamais = Better late than never.
[This is first found in Dionysius of Halicarnassus (ix. 11): “It is better beginning late doing our duties than never.”]
Tarder
Il me tarde de parler = I am anxious to speak.
Il ne tardera pas à venir = It will not be long before he comes.
Tarte
C’est sa tarte à la crème = It is his one constant objection.
[Molière, École des Femmes, i. 1.]
*Tel maître, tel valet = Like master, like man; Like well, like bucket.