Quotes and Sayings About Firsts
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Trust me-that toilet and me were best friends for the first few days I was here.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith -
If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.
-- Alexander Haig -
In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
A first killing is like your first love. You never forget it,
-- Alexander Pichushkin -
This first murder, it’s like first love, it’s unforgettable.
-- Alexander Pichushkin -
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
-- Alexander Pope -
Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
-- Alexander Pope -
That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less.
-- Alexander Pope -
Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
-- Alexander Pope -
New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,...
-- Alexander Pope -
Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.
-- Alexander Pope -
Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
-- Alexander Pope -
A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
-- Alexander Smith -
My logisticians are a humorless lot ... they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay.
-- Alexander the Great -
If on a friend’s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact, So kick him first or punch him hard And from him hide behind a curtain.
-- Alexander Theroux -
Take people's advice and guidance in the beginning, but always follow your instincts first
-- Alexander Wang -
You know, I'm part of that first MTV generation.
-- Alexandra Patsavas -
He hadn't lost Grace. Because she'd never been his to lose in the first place.
-- Alexandra Potter -
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.
-- Alexei Sayle -
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
-- Alexis Carrel -
Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.
-- Alexis Soyer -
Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R.
-- Alfonso Cuaron -
If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.
-- Alfred Adler
