Famous quotes containing the word sooner:
“The women take so little stock
In what I do or say
They’d sooner leave their cosseting
To hear a jackass bray....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever.... Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“The truth is the river flows into the canyon
Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn’t-Concern-Us,
As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)