(1273 quotes found)
“What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.”
Voltaire
“Fair daffodils, we weep to see / You haste away so soon: / As yet the early-rising sun / Has not attained his noon.”
Robert Herrick
“I start early in the morning. I'm usually out in the woods with the dog as soon as it gets light; then I drink a whole lot of tea and start as early as I can, and I go as long as I can.”
Robert Stone
“If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?”
Stephen Levine
“I'd as soon listen to dried peas in a bladder, as listen to your thoughts.”
William Butler Yeats
“I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.”
Richard Branson
“One insult pocketed soon produces another”
Thomas Jefferson
“'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, "You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again”
Isaac Watts
“Instant gratification is not soon enough.”
Meryl Streep
“Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.”
Dean Acheson
