500 Quotes by Firsts

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.

The right to life is the first among human rights.

I’m doing philosophy like an old woman, first I’m looking for my pencil, then I’m looking for my glasses, then I’m looking for my pencil again.

Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!

I know death follows me, but I murder him first.

If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.