The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.
Elvis Presley

Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases.
Brett Favre

I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.
Payne Stewart

For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.
Payne Stewart

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

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
Alexander Pope

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
Jimmy Carter

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
Thomas Sowell

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Alexander Graham Bell

The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
Casey Stengel

Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.
Casey Stengel

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
Rahm Emanuel

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams

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

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
Robert Browning

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
Richard P. Feynman

I can't dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven't got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you.
Charles Manson

I never had long hair before I got busted. I never had a beard before I got busted.
Charles Manson

I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along.
Charles Manson

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
Tennessee Williams