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A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
[ Marriage ]
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison books
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Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
[ Expectation ]
Aesop
Aesop books
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71 votes
In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.
[ Sales ]
Tony Alesandra
Tony Alesandra books
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I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
[ Humility ]
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali books
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85 votes
I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights.
[ Preparation ]
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali books
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65 votes
The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.
[ Obscurity ]
George Allen
George Allen books
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90 votes
Before borrowing money from a friend decide which you need most.
[ Borrowing ]
American Proverb
American Proverb books
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70 votes
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
[ Food and Eating ]
Jeff Arder
Jeff Arder books
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72 votes
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
[ Action ]
Aristotle
Aristotle books
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76 votes
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
[ Habit ]
Aristotle
Aristotle books
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60 votes
My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
[ Things and Little Things ]
Daisy Ashford
Daisy Ashford books
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70 votes
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
[ Home ]
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon books
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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
[ Consistency ]
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon books
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67 votes
I leave before being left. I decide.
[ Love Ended ]
Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot books
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54 votes
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
Ethel Barrymore
Ethel Barrymore books
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70 votes
Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
[ Hope ]
Bruce Barton
Bruce Barton books
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48 votes
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
[ Speculation ]
Bernard M. Baruch
Bernard M. Baruch books
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46 votes
If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
George Barzan
George Barzan books
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67 votes
Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.
[ Humankind ]
R. M. Baumgardy
R. M. Baumgardy books
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44 votes
If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.
[ Change ]
Gita Bellin
Gita Bellin books
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64 votes
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
[ Dogs ]
Robert Benchley
Robert Benchley books
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54 votes
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
[ Faith ]
Ruth Benedict
Ruth Benedict books
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54 votes
Before honor is humility.
[ Humility ]
Bible
Bible books
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Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
[ Medicine ]
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce books
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85 votes
Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce books
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61 votes
Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.
[ Work ]
Josh Billings
Josh Billings books
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59 votes
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
[ Impossibility ]
Louis D. Brandeis
Louis D. Brandeis books
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62 votes
Look twice before you leap.
[ Caution ]
Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte books
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Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.
[ Admiration ]
Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke books
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69 votes
Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.
[ Dreams ]
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Dr. Joyce Brothers books
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57 votes
It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.
[ Trials ]
Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown books
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46 votes
The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.
[ Imagination ]
Gene Brown
Gene Brown books
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Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
[ Charity ]
Sir Thomas Browne
Sir Thomas Browne books
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51 votes
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
[ Laughter ]
Jean De La Bruyere
Jean De La Bruyere books
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37 votes
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
[ Age and Aging ]
Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck books
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51 votes
Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
[ Youth ]
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton books
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40 votes
Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.
[ Intuition ]
Michael Burke
Michael Burke books
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48 votes
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
[ Laziness ]
Mortimer Caplan
Mortimer Caplan books
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43 votes
A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.
[ Faces ]
John Carey
John Carey books
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The heart always sees before than the head can see.
[ Heart ]
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle books
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34 votes
You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.
[ Courage ]
Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie books
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48 votes
Sometimes I've believed as many as six possible things before breakfast.
[ Belief ]
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll books
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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
[ Nature ]
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver books
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41 votes
A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
Miguel De Cervantes
Miguel De Cervantes books
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35 votes
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
[ Books - Reading ]
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort books
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46 votes
Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.
[ Apologies ]
Charles I
Charles I books
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44 votes
The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
[ Trains ]
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton books
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40 votes
Before beginning, plan carefully.
[ Planning ]
Marcus T. Cicero
Marcus T. Cicero books
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60 votes
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
[ Children ]
Marcus T. Cicero
Marcus T. Cicero books
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40 votes
Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.
[ Marriage ]
W. A. Clarke
W. A. Clarke books
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56 votes