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Best Before Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
- To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift…
- We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the…
- What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred…
- Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his…
- He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.
- Before marriage a woman is pensive, after marriage, expensive
- The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
- Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; whenwe have made it,…
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- 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