Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The people themselves, and not their servants,
can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
- Abraham Lincoln
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
If he's first class, I'm traveling steerage.
- the movie Libeled Lady (1936)
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- Everett Dirksen
When I first saw you, I thought you were handsome.
Then, of course, you spoke.
- the movie As Good As It Gets (1997)
If at first you don't succeed,
skydiving is not for you.
- Anonymous
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
Life is uncertain; always eat dessert first.
- Anonymous
I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
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
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
- Chinese Proverb
Many a man owes his success to his first wife
and his second wife to his success.
- Jim Backus
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 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
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
Getting fired is nature's way to telling you
that you had the wrong job in the first place.
- Hal Lancaster
After the first blush of sin, comes its indifference.
- Henry David Thoreau
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
Smile first thing in the morning. Get it over with.
- W. C. Fields
We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
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
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
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
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
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
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
In rivers, the water that you touch
is the last of what has passed
and the first of that which comes;
so with present time.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Life ... is like a parachute jump:
you have to get it right the first time.
- Margaret Mead
You have a row of dominoes set up;
you knock over the first one,
and what will happen to the last one
is that it will go over very quickly.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Today, I Do What Is Important To Me, First.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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