Quotations
Quotes:
And the sooner the tea's out of the way, the sooner we can get out the gin, eh? (Private Life of Hilda Tablet)
View quotes by Henry Reed
War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueller it is the
sooner it will be over.
View quotes by William Sherman
I said... how, and why, young children, were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
View quotes by Roger Ascham
Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.
View quotes by Richard Nixon
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 quotes by Pythagoras
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.
View quotes by Marcus Aurelius
Sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has lived before us-Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.
View quotes by Jacob Bronowski
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
View quotes by George Bernard Shaw
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
View quotes by George Bernard Shaw
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Sooner barbarity than boredom.
View quotes by Théophile Gautier
I'm not regretful about dropping acid, but I could have stopped it a little sooner.
View quotes by David Carradine
No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.
View quotes by Franz Kafka
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
View quotes by Will Durant
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
View quotes by Stephen Butler Leacock
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
View quotes by Tallulah Bankhead
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
View quotes by John Keats
We targeted next year's [2006] Ashes as the one where we wanted to beat them and it happened a lot sooner than expected
View quotes by Kevin Pietersen
There is no virtue can be sooner missed or later welcomed; it begins the rest, and sets them all in order
View quotes by Thomas Middleton
For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.
View quotes by Catherine II
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