Early Quotes

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. (H. L. Mencken)
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered that I was not God. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference. View quote
Harry S. Truman
Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. View quote
James Thurber
History is a vast early warning system. View quote
Norman Cousins
My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India. View quote
Edward Gibbon
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. View quote
B. F. Skinner
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow. View quote
Margaret Fuller
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. View quote
Anthony Trollope
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. (Jonathan Swift)
A useless life is an early death. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's always too early to quit. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age. View quote
Ed Bradley
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. View quote
John Updike
Books . . . are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job. View quote
Thomas Hardy
There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney. (Roy Lichtenstein)
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days. View quote
Andrew Wiles
Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. View quote
Maya Angelou
I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time. View quote
Elvis Costello
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early. View quote
Thom Gunn