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232 Quotations
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A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
[ Marriage ]
Joseph Addison
26 votes
In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.
[ Sales ]
Tony Alesandra
17 votes
The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.
[ Obscurity ]
George Allen
24 votes
Before borrowing money from a friend decide which you need most.
[ Borrowing ]
American Proverb
23 votes
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
[ Food and Eating ]
Jeff Arder
25 votes
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
[ Action ]
Aristotle
24 votes
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
[ Habit ]
Aristotle
19 votes
My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
[ Things and Little Things ]
Daisy Ashford
25 votes
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
[ Home ]
Francis Bacon
24 votes
Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
[ Consistency ]
Francis Bacon
23 votes
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
Ethel Barrymore
22 votes
Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
[ Hope ]
Bruce Barton
19 votes
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
[ Speculation ]
Bernard M. Baruch
17 votes
If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
George Barzan
25 votes
Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.
[ Humankind ]
R. M. Baumgardy
15 votes
If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.
[ Change ]
Gita Bellin
23 votes
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
[ Dogs ]
Robert Benchley
21 votes
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
[ Faith ]
Ruth Benedict
22 votes
Pride goeth before destruction
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Bible
18 votes
Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
[ Medicine ]
Ambrose Bierce
25 votes
Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.
[ Work ]
Josh Billings
21 votes
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
[ Impossibility ]
Louis D. Brandeis
22 votes
Look twice before you leap.
[ Caution ]
Charlotte Bronte
19 votes
Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.
[ Dreams ]
Dr. Joyce Brothers
22 votes
The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.
[ Imagination ]
Gene Brown
18 votes
Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
[ Charity ]
Sir Thomas Browne
22 votes
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
[ Laughter ]
Jean De La Bruyere
15 votes
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
[ Age and Aging ]
Pearl S. Buck
19 votes
Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
[ Youth ]
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
18 votes
Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.
[ Intuition ]
Michael Burke
18 votes
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
[ Laziness ]
Mortimer Caplan
16 votes
A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.
[ Faces ]
John Carey
20 votes