To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Jane Austen

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Thomas A. Edison

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
Thomas A. Edison

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
George Burns

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
Pope John Paul II

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
George Orwell

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George Orwell

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolo Machiavelli

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
Marcus Aurelius

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.
Donald Trump

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
William Osler

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
T. S. Eliot