First Quotes

"Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Every artist was first an amateur."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The first wealth is health."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish."
-Mark Twain

"The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year."
-Mark Twain

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
-Mark Twain

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)"
-Mark Twain

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."
-Mark Twain

"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please."
-Mark Twain

"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win."
-Mahatma Ghandi

"In the news trenches, always he battled to be accurately first, ... Ed Turner was walking ethics."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
-George Bernard Shaw

"In war, truth is the first casualty."
-Aeschylus

"He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first."
-Dr. Thomas Fuller

"A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life."
-Oscar Wilde

"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
-Oscar Wilde

"In order to write about life, first you must live it!"
-Ernest Hemingway

"All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin."
-John F. Kennedy

"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."
-James A. Garfield

"If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place."
-Sir George Savile

"We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
-T. S. Eliot

"Make your own recovery the first priority in your life."
-Robin Norwood

"We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time."
-T. S. Eliot

"As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around."
-Oprah Winfrey

"Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you."
-Wally 'Famous' Amos

"I write the first sentence and trust in God for the next."
-Laurence Sterne

"What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better."
-Wendell Phillips