Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas’d at first, the towring Alps we try,...
Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less.
Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.
Heav’n first taught letters for some wretch’s aid, Some banish’d lover, or some captive maid.
What a childhood I had, why, when I took my first step, my old man tripped me!
She was so ugly that I took her to a dog show and she won first prize.
He who laughs last didn’t get it in the first place.
When people don’t like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.
First rule, stick them with the pointy end!
There are two kinds of writers. There are architects and gardeners. The architects do blueprints before they drive the first nail. The gardeners just dig a hole and plant the seed and see what comes up.
Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.
Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.
I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did not know it’s exigencies.
I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.
A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place.
At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
I was impossible. I don’t know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.