Sudden acquaintance
Brings long repentance. [ Proverb ]

Sudden glory soon goes out. [ Proverb ]

Love seldom dies a sudden death. [ Saurin ]

Sudden love is the latest cured. [ La Bruyère ]

Hasty climbers have sudden falls. [ Proverb ]

Thoughts so sudden, that they seem
The revelations of a dream. [ Longfellow ]

Sudden friendship sure repentance. [ Proverb ]

All death is sudden to the unprepared. [ Proverb ]

Sudden passions are hard to be managed. [ Proverb ]

The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight.
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

No honest man gets an estate of a sudden. [ Proverb ]

What quick wit is found in sudden straits! [ Martial ]

Sudden friendships rarely live to ripeness. [ Mlle. de Scuderi ]

Sudden joy kills sooner than excessive grief. [ Proverb ]

Hark to that shrill, sudden shout,
The cry of an applauding multitude,
Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields,
The living mass as if he were its soul! [ William Cullen Bryant ]

Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war.
And thus hath so bestirr'd thee in thy sleep
That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow
Like bubbles in a late-disturbed stream:
And in thy face strange motions have appear'd,
Such as we see when men restrain their breath
On some great sudden haste. [ William Shakespeare ]

Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom,
A shadow on those features fair and thin;
And softly, from that hushed and darkened room,
Two angels issued, where but one went in. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. [ Emerson ]

Rage is the shortest passion of our souls:
Like narrow brooks, that rise with sudden showers,
It swells in haste, and falls again as soon. [ Rowe ]

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive,
Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.
The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow;
They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats,
And flare up bodily, wings and all. [ E. B. Browning ]

Great poets are no sudden prodigies, but slow results. [ Lowell ]

A sudden thought strikes me, let us swear eternal friendship. [ Canning ]

Hence (from sensual indulgence) sudden deaths and intestate old age. [ Juv ]

Crimes succeed by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay. [ Tacitus ]

Too great and sudden changes, though for the better, are not easily born. [ Proverb ]

Wit marries ideas lying wide apart, by a sudden jerk of the understanding. [ Edwin P. Whipple ]

Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends. [ Selden ]

A panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. [ Bovee ]

Books are a sort of dumb teachers; they cannot answer sudden questions, or explain present doubts. [ J. Watts ]

In weightlifting, I don't think sudden, uncontrolled urination should automatically disqualify you. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

When a great man strikes out into a sudden irregularity, he needs not question the respect of a retinue. [ Collier ]

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicate little else than the changeableness of the weather. [ Hare ]

Sudden tumultuous popularity comes more from partial delirium on both sides than from clear insight, and is of evil omen to all concerned with it. [ Carlyle ]

Great joy, especially after a sudden change and revolution of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. [ Fielding ]

Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work. [ Fielding ]

Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise. [ Dr. Johnson ]

The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate. [ Socrates ]

A cold-blooded learned man might, for anything I know, compose in his closet an eloquent book; but in public discourse, arising out of sudden occasions, he could by no possibility be eloquent. [ Erskine ]

An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned, if the accession be sudden; he is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder; people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so. [ Cecil ]

Be not too rash in the breaking of an inconvenient custom; as it was gotten, so leave it by degrees. Danger attends upon too sudden alterations; he that pulls down a bad building by the great may be ruined by the fall, but he that takes it down brick by brick may live to build a better. [ Quarles ]

Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a manuscript: every burst of eloquence or spark of genius they may contain, however studied they may have been beforehand, will appear to the audience to be the effect of the sudden inspiration of talent. [ Colton ]

Sudden blaze of kindness may, by a single blast of coldness, be extinguished; but that fondness which length of time has connected with many circumstances and occasions, though it may for a while be suppressed by disgust or resentment, with or without cause, is hourly revived by accidental recollection. [ Johnson ]

A town, before it can be plundered and deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one. [ Colton ]