Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
Muhammad Ali

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Albert Einstein

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
Muhammad Ali

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
Muhammad Ali

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Marilyn Monroe

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
Winston Churchill

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
Winston Churchill

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
Winston Churchill

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
Abraham Lincoln

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Confucius

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Confucius

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Mark Twain

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
Mark Twain

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
Mark Twain

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare

The golden age is before us, not behind us.
William Shakespeare