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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
Gertrude Stein
Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.
Gertrude Stein
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
Richard Bach
When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
H. L. Mencken
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
H. L. Mencken
Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
H. L. Mencken
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.
Pope John Paul II
What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
James Madison
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegut
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
Rita Rudner
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
George Orwell
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
Edmund Burke
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
George Eliot
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Walt Whitman
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Walt Whitman
George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.
Paul McCartney
To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
John Locke
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