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There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50,
and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
- Winston Churchill
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There are two times when a man doesn't understand a woman -
before marriage and after marriage.
- Anonymous
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck
I do not fear death.
I had been dead for billions and billions
of years before I was born,
and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Mark Twain
Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
Praying is important when you wake up
at two o'clock in the morning
feeling sick from eating something dumb the day before.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband
a month before she marries him
and what she thinks of him a year afterward,
and you will have the truth about him.
- H. L. Mencken
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite
smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol
before, after and if need be during all meals
and in the intervals between them.
- Winston Churchill
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
We all have our thorns. We, and Life, have our moments.
Life occurs before our morning coffee.
Life occurs in our bathrobe with our hair uncombed.
Bless and give thanks for All of Life - the bloom and the thorns.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere,
and many of us will have to pass
through the valley of the shadow of death
again and again before we reach
the mountaintop of our desires.
- Nelson Mandela
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach
In case you failed to notice,
in case you failed to see,
this is my heart,
bleeding before you,
this is me down on my knees.
- Jewel
Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone
what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe
My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump
We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mankind must put an end to war
before war puts an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy
Today, try something you have never tried before.
Perhaps just a food that is new to you -
perhaps a whole new way of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho
Before the throne of the Almighty,
man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions.
For God alone reads our hearts.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grace isn't just a little prayer
you say before receiving a meal.
It's a way to live.
- Jackie Windspear
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I tried to remember how to exhale.
I had to look away before it came back to me.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
From far beyond this life,
I hear the call.
From place beyond all place,
I feel the call.
From time before all time,
I know the call.
From one before all ones,
I am the call.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thanks to television, for the first time
the young are seeing history made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now.
When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies.
We are seeing what is before us.
- John Bradshaw
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
I did not wish to take a cabin passage,
but rather to go before the mast
and on the deck of the world,
for there I could best see
the moonlight amid the mountains.
I do not wish to go below now.
- Henry David Thoreau
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
- Thomas Jefferson
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness
of the woods before sunrise.
- George Washington Carver
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A great part of courage is the courage
of having done the thing before.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
If I read a book that impresses me,
I have to take myself firmly in hand
before I mix with other people;
otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
- Anne Frank
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
If you have no confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely.
You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
- Henry David Thoreau
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
Habits age men before their time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Follow your bliss and doors will open
where there were no doors before.
- Joseph Campbell
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar,
but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
- Abraham Lincoln
The challenge before us is to savor the unknown
and delight in the taste of possibility.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Children are born innocent.
Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,
love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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