If at first you don't succeed,
try, try, and try again.
Then give up.
There's no use being a damned fool about it.
- W. C. Fields
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields 
I am free of prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
- W. C. Fields
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down
rat holes with baited breath.
- W. C. Fields
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
- W. C. Fields
Smile first thing in the morning. Get it over with.
- W. C. Fields
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
When I first saw you, I thought you were handsome.
Then, of course, you spoke.
- the movie As Good As It Gets (1997)
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
If he's first class, I'm traveling steerage.
- the movie Libeled Lady (1936)
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- Everett Dirksen
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
If at first you don't succeed,
skydiving is not for you.
- Anonymous
Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner
Getting fired is nature's way to telling you
that you had the wrong job in the first place.
- Hal Lancaster
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
There are four stages in a marriage.
First there's the affair,
then the marriage,
then children
and finally the fourth stage,
without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
- Norman Mailer
I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
- Chinese Proverb
There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi
The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Many a man owes his success to his first wife
and his second wife to his success.
- Jim Backus
We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
Life is uncertain; always eat dessert first.
- Anonymous
After the first blush of sin, comes its indifference.
- Henry David Thoreau
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink.
I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.
We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you,
its first order of business is to preserve itself,
and the way it preserves itself
is to keep you from having any doubts,
and the way it keeps you from doubting
is to blind you to the way things really are.
- Philip Caputo
Apathy, indifference, not caring...
It may sound insensitive for me to say, "I don't care,"
but ask first to what I am indifferent.
I choose to be caring, compassionate
and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
Lovers who have been left, lose confidence and become afraid.
They learn to leave relationships first.
The broken hearted become the heart breakers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand
and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
BERLIN: PROCLAMATION TO THE GERMAN NATION FEBRUARY 1, 1933
The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty
to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation.
It will preserve and defend those basic principles
on which our nation has been built.
It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality,
and the family as the basis of national life....
- Adolf Hitler
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction,
is the first and only object of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
The second office in the government is honorable and easy;
the first is but a splendid misery.
- Thomas Jefferson
My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes,
I want to go home and screw; After the first twenty minutes,
I never want to screw again as long as I live
- Erica Jong
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Today, I Do What Is Important To Me, First.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first,
rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
- Henry David Thoreau
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human.
I am a woman first of all.
- Anais Nin
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
The first wealth is health.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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