The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true.
Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.
As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: “What is his point of reference here?” But begin with yourself: examine yourself first.
The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.
The world doesn’t owe you anything. It was here first.
What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.
The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.
One must keep one’s character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can’t, then assume one.
You need not expect to get your book right the first time.
My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.
Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won’t die.
You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.
Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn’t see him do it.
First catch your Boer, then kick him.
You can’t reason someone out of something that they weren’t reasoned into in the first place.
No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
It was on the 10th day of May – 1884 – that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.
Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned.
Whom you would change, you must first love.