The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
Gustave Flaubert

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
Aesop

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
Samuel Adams

We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.
Herbert Hoover

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.
John Lasseter

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
John Ruskin

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.
Sextus Propertius

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.
Bill Watterson

I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
Raymond Chandler

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
Alice Walker

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
W. Somerset Maugham

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
W. Somerset Maugham

You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.
Robert Benchley

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.
Robert Benchley

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
Alan Bennett

Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
Daniel Boone

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
Joan Didion

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.
Chief Joseph

I made my money by selling too soon.
Bernard Baruch

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
Pythagoras