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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

Two, Old, Means

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.
Erma Bombeck

Trying, Try, Keep

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

Again, Story, Stop

I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
Mae West

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

War, Against, Act

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph Addison

Everything, Soul, Idea

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

Truth, Husband, Woman

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Long, Tell, Heaven

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
Julius Caesar

Die, Times, Cowards

You give before you get.
Napoleon Hill

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
Blaise Pascal

Love, Different, Ourselves

Change before you have to.
Jack Welch

I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.
Mitch Hedberg

Play, Wish, League

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.
Esther Dyson

Change, Perfect, Means

All men are equal before fish.
Herbert Hoover

Men, Fish, Equal

I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life.
Joyce Meyer

Life, God, Attitude

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Perfect, Sometimes, Once

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
Mike Tyson

Fight, Try, Nonsense

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.
Barack Obama

Country, America, Next

Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.
Michael Jackson

Hurt, Child, Wrists

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

Nature, Everything, Else

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules Renard

Tired, Nothing, Laziness

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.
Michael Jackson

Veteran, Teenager

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams

Patience, Obstacles, Effect

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

Fool, After, Necessary

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
B. C. Forbes

History, Become, Winners

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

Impossible, Sometimes, Breakfast

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Music, Time, Live

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.
Hillary Clinton

Change, Hope, Night

I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn't enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I'm sure I would have never left.
John Wooden

School, Down, Service

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