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

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
Lee Iacocca

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.
Johnny Depp

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.
Woodrow Wilson

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
Woodrow Wilson

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
Woodrow Wilson

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
Woodrow Wilson

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
Epicurus

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
Rudyard Kipling

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Rudyard Kipling

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
Albert Camus

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Albert Camus

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
Albert Camus

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Albert Camus