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Best Before Quotes by Mark Twain
- 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…
- Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real…
- But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to…
- The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed…
- I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.
- One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.
- You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.…
- Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
- A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.
- A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because…
- I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the…
- How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.
- To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame…
- The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work
- The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little
- Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
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