Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
Thomas A. Edison

We must act out passion before we can feel it.
Jean-Paul Sartre

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
George S. Patton

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Change before you have to.
Jack Welch

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
Lewis Carroll

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
Helen Keller

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
Albert Camus

Before I speak, I have something important to say.
Groucho Marx

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles Dickens

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Charles Dickens

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
Charles Dickens

If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.
Groucho Marx

No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.
Groucho Marx

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
Dr. Seuss

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
Stephen Hawking

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
Stephen Hawking

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
Alexander Pope