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Before Quotes by Mark Twain
- The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one…
- Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.
- It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.
- We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.
- I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the…
- Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad…
- I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict…
- As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its…
- It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest pet name for…
- Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.
- A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and…
- Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.
- In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of…
- Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more…
- I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so…
- An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't…
- [N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law…
- The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to…
- Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more…
- More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.
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- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is… — Richard Bach
- Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- 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 began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- For all the noise and anger that too often surrounds the immigration debate, America has nothing to fear from today's immigrants. They… — Barack Obama
- If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling… — Rajneesh