Before Quotes

Before becoming a mom, I never knew how good I had it to just spend time at a spa for a few hours. Now, those days are far and between. So when I have an hour, it's all about the mani and pedi.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.

Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!

All men are equal before fish.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

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

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.

Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.

I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.

My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.

I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention.

If it's not working before you get married, marriage isn't going to fix it.

I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.

I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

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

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.