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Before Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
- Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
- But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
- When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
- The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare…
- What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one…
- He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw…
- Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never…
- A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
- Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.
- You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and…
- In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
- Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.
- And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from…
- He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It…
- There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
- The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt;…
- The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
More Before Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it? — Arthur Ashe
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood