I like to hold the microphone cord like this, I pinch it together, then I let it go, then you hear a whole bunch of jokes at once.
Mitch Hedberg

I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.
Oprah Winfrey

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Saint Augustine

If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.
Steven Wright

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.
Steven Wright

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
Pablo Picasso

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Vincent Van Gogh

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
Pablo Picasso

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
Saint Augustine

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
Lewis Carroll

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
Martin Luther

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
Martin Luther

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller

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

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.
Groucho Marx

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
William Morris