‘Sooner or Later’ Proverbs & Sayings
Sooner or later the truth comes to light. ~ Dutch Proverbs
Pay me back what you owe me; we’ll talk later about what I owe you. ~ Spanish Proverbs
If you are looking for bad luck, you will soon find it. ~ Japanese Proverbs
A building without foundation is soon demolished. ~ Turkish Proverbs
He who does not mend his clothes will soon have none. ~ Nigerien Proverbs
Have patience, the grass will be milk soon enough. ~ Chinese Proverb
Care now, be cared for later. ~ Palestinian Proverbs
Who does not beat his own child will later beat his own breast. ~ Persian Proverbs
The longest day soon comes to an end. ~ Traditional Proverb
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions. ~ Carlos Santana
We all end up in a single bed sooner or later. ~ Traditional Proverb
What you save is, later, like something found. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think. ~ Chinese Proverb
No sooner is a law made than a way around it is discovered. ~ Italian Proverbs
What flares up fast, extinguishes soon. ~ Turkish Proverb
Soon learned, soon forgotten. ~ Traditional Proverb
Long absent, soon forgotten. ~ Traditional Proverb
It is never later than midnight. ~ Myanmar Proverb
Ingratitude is sooner or later fatal to its author. ~ Ivorian Proverbs
Soon enough is well enough. ~ Traditional Proverb
He that always thinks it is too soon is sure to come too late. ~ German Proverbs
Sooner or later the day comes when the tumor can be lanced. ~ Chinese Proverb
Death is a black camel that lies down at every door. Sooner or later you must ride the camel. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
As soon as man is born he begins to die. ~ Traditional Proverb
Better reap two days too soon than one too late. ~ Dutch Proverb
Soon grass, soon hay. ~ Dutch Proverb
Only believe a woman one day later. ~ Kenyan Proverbs
A marriage in later years sends a letter to the grave digger. ~ German Proverbs
As soon as a man leaves his house he has seven enemies. ~ Japanese Proverb
He who buys useless things, later sells things that he needs. ~ Japanese Proverb
Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~ Chinese Proverb
No sooner have you spoken than what you have said becomes the property of another. ~ Hindustani Proverb
That which everybody guards will soon disappear. ~ Polish Proverb
‘Sooner of Later’ Quotes
Sooner or later, we will have to recognize that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans. ~ Evo Morales
Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct. ~ Julian S. Huxley
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. ~ Walter Savage Landor
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. ~ George Santayana
Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. ~ Og Mandino
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Sooner or later you’ve heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love. ~ Ned Rorem
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. ~ Oscar Wilde
Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall. ~ Al Stewart
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions. ~ Carlos Santana
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire. ~ Margaret Mead
I never think of the future – it comes soon enough. ~ Albert Einstein
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. ~ Paul Tournier
The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business. ~ Derby Brown
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody. ~ Dick Armey
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Since we must all die sooner or later, let us enjoy life while we can! ~ Otoma no Tabito
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less. ~ Susan B. Anthony
Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you’re gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It’s yours. Seize your space. ~ Margaret Atwood
Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. ~ Robert Collier
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. ~ John Wanamaker
Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality. ~ Winston Churchill
Sooner or later we’ve all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we’re doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control. ~ Ayad Akhtar
I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that? ~ Omar Epps
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? ~ Fanny Brice
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. ~ James Allen
Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. ~ Benjamin Franklin
If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out. ~ Lou Ferrigno
Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God. ~ Arnold J. Toynbee
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Getting fired is what happens to a manager sooner or later. ~ Joe Torre
Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again. ~ Stephen King
There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty. ~ Thomas Hood
If you really have something to say, sooner or later it will be heard. And if you’re lucky you’ll still be alive. ~ Marilyn Minter
Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. ~ Martin Luther King
You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through. ~ Ilya Ehrenburg
Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must perforce come to an end. ~ Baroness Orczy
People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to someone. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature. ~ Oscar Wilde
Conscience is an exact recorder, that writes every man’s history; an inward witness, that will sooner or later speak the whole truth; an impartial judge, whose sentence will acquit or condemn. ~ John Thornton
But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later. ~ Lydia M. Child
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later. ~ Alice Munro
Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made. ~ Bruce Catton