A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.
Mitch Hedberg

I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.
Bob Dylan

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
Joseph Campbell

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
John Adams

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
John Adams

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Dale Carnegie

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
Charles de Gaulle

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.
Katharine Hepburn

Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
Steve Martin

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
Jane Austen

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.
P. J. O'Rourke

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
Clint Eastwood

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
Blaise Pascal

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
Noam Chomsky

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen

Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.
Lord Byron