If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.
Henny Youngman

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it's feet first!
Henny Youngman

That was the first time I saw a horse start from a kneeling position!
Henny Youngman

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
John Locke

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
Marianne Williamson

The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.
Joan Rivers

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
Rumi

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
Lucille Ball

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
Margaret Mead

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
Jackie Robinson

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
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

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw