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First Among Equals.
In America there are two classes of travelfirst class, and with children.
But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.
The first day of the weekcometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.
You have a row of dominoes set up.You knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last isthat it will go over very quickly.
It is an axiom of sports that the legs go first. For sportswriters, it's the enthusiasm.
About the time you are writing a line that you have writtenso oftenthat you wanttothrow up, that isthefirst time the American people will hear it.
The silver swan, who living had no note, When death approached, unlocked her silent throat; Leaning her breast against the reedy shore, Thus sung her first and last, and sung no more: 'Farewell, all joys; Oh death, come close mine eyes; More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.'
Das Erste und Letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahrheitsliebe. The first and thelastthingdemanded of geniusisthelove of truth.
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first, best country ever is, at home.
The first blow is half the battle.
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. Theyare all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem testa diu. The first scent you pour in a jar lasts for years.
We for a certaintyare not the first Have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled Their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed Whatever brute and blackguard made the world.
Science says the first word on everything and the last word on nothing.
It isn't the first step that concerns me, but both sides escalating to the fourth or fifth stepand we don't go to the sixth because there is no one around to do so.
The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.
In Words, as Fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike Fantastic, if too New, or Old; Be not the first by whom the Neware try'd, Nor the last to lay the Old aside.
If the President has a bully pulpit, then the First Lady has a white glove pulpitmore refined, restricted, ceremonial, but it's a pulpit all the same.
Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
When you're a poet, you're a poet first.When it comes, it's like an angel. 715
L'homme n'est rien d'autre que ce qu'il se fait.Tel est le premier principe de l'existentialisme. Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself. That is the first principle of existentialism.
We'd gained our first objective hours before While dawn broke like a face with blinking eyes, Pallid, unshaved and thirsty, blind with smoke.
This pretty ring I will give it to the first man who tells me he would like to be a woman. It is delightful to be a woman; but every man thanks the Lord devoutly that he isn't one.
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
For every philosopher, in every age, the first question must be:Just what is philosophy?
The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and as I had foretold, that lake is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our religious belief.
As fattening is the first duty of fashionable female life, it must be duly enforced by the rod if necessary. I got up a bit of flirtation with missy, and induced her to rise and shake hands with me. Her face was lovely, but her body was as round as a ball.
After the first powerful plain manifesto The black statement of pistons, without more fuss, But gliding like a queen, she leaves the station. 807
The poet shares with other artists the faculty of seeing things as though for the first time.
The first argument that is brought against every new proposal departing from conventional lines is nearly always that it is impracticable.
A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.
Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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