I had a beard way before it was fashionable.
Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along.
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.
I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.
Before beginning, plan carefully.
I have lost almost every friend that I had before Casey died.
I've never worked behind a cash register before.
Cecil Beaton was Andy Warhol before Andy Warhol, really.
A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.
Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared.