“you dont know what you got till its gone”

“I've seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.”

“You never know what you have till you've lost it.”

“Leverage is everything,—was what I used to say;—don't begin to pry till you have got the long arm on your side.”

“Never surrender, it's all about the faith you got: don't ever stop, just push it 'till you hit the top and if you drop, at least you know you gave your all to be true to you, that way you can never fall”

“Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.”

“Miss Tillings: Stand up, Nigel Barton! Well, Nigel, do you know anything about this? I can't believe it was you!
Nigel Barton: No, Miss!
Miss Tillings: Then what do you know about it?
Nigel Barton: I think - I think I might have had the daffodil, Miss—
Miss Tillings: You might have had it? What do you mean, boy? Speak up!
Nigel Barton: The stem was all broke and somebody gave it to me, Miss.
Miss Tillings: Who gave it to you?
Nigel Barton: Ooh, I don't like to say, Miss.
Miss Tillings: You better had, Barton, and quick about it.
Nigel Barton: Georgie Pringle, Miss.”

“This skeptical method consists very much in vicious circles. You cannot know whether a fact be a fact till you have ascertained the laws of nature in the case, and you cannot know the laws of nature till you have ascertained facts.”

“Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.”

“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.”