Sooner Quotes

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. (Marcus Aurelius)
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. View quote
Tallulah Bankhead
Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better. View quote
Horatio Nelson
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than of war. View quote
Homer
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? View quote
Fanny Brice
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. View quote
Margaret Mead
Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex. (Alfred Kinsey)
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him. View quote
G. I. Gurdjieff
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. View quote
Colette
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. View quote
Tallulah Bankhead
The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy. View quote
Florence Scovel Shinn
For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life. View quote
Margaret Fuller
I love you and, because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. View quote
Pietro Aretino
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Judge us not equally, Abraham. We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others. View quote
Seth Grahame-Smith
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. View quote
Pythagoras
Sooner or later...one has to take sides. If one is to remain human. View quote
Graham Greene
Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, ''Go to sleep by yourselves.'' And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help. View quote
Margaret Mead