If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.
It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn’t.
But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.
The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive.
When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.
A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.
I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller.
The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.
The first resistance to social change is to say it’s not necessary.
For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
Two women at a resort discussed dinner: “The food here is lousy,” the first noted. “You’re right! And such small portions!!” the second added.
I remember the first time I had sex – I kept the receipt.
Will you marry me? Do you have any money? Answer the second question first.
We become what we love. What we put first in our lives is what we receive from life.
Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.
Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.
Be the first to say, “Hello”.
Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it’s not the same as in daytime.
When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.