The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
Jackie Kennedy

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
Jackie Kennedy

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
Jackie Kennedy

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
Horace Walpole

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
Horace Walpole

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.
Woody Allen

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
Dolly Parton

I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.
Dolly Parton

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Oprah Winfrey

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

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.
Oprah Winfrey

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
James Madison

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
James Madison

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
James Madison

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
Julius Caesar

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.
Richard Dawkins

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
Alexis de Tocqueville

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
Alexis de Tocqueville

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.
Henny Youngman