Before Quotes

Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.

As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.

My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.

Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were involved in the days before Newton had announced the true laws of the motion of bodies.

Before Alar, there was EDB, a potent human carcinogen allowed in the grain supply and other food for more than a decade after it was known to be dangerous.

Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.

Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.

Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you