The chicken or the egg? These are some proverbs and quotes about being first.
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Oscar WildeEvery artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFirst come, first served.
First things first.
Important matters should be dealt with before other things.First, to do no harm.
Translation of Latin: Primum non nocere. (taught to medical students as a principal guideline)God Almighty first planted a garden.
Francis BaconHe is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: North and South
I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!
Jane AustenSource: Pride and Prejudice
If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.
Samuel JohnsonIn science, new ideas are at first completely neglected, later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known.
Konrad LorenzIn the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
BibleSource: Genesis
In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.
Music is my first love.
Mandy MooreNews is only the first rough draft of history.
Alan BarthNo love like the first love.
Pure water is the world's first and foremost medicine.
Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
Jane AustenSimplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
Philip James BaileyThe axe falls first upon a straight tree.
The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
Arthur KeithThe first and last profession: Agriculture!
MinkukelThe first breath is the beginning of death.
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
George Bernard ShawThe first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard P. FeynmanThe first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
Albert SchweitzerThe first step is the hardest.
The most difficult part of a job is to begin with it.The first step toward wisdom is the realization that the laws of the universe don't care about you.
Steven PinkerSource: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
The first time I tried organic wheat bread, I thought I was chewing on roofing material.
Robin WillamsThe last thought in the evening is often the first one in the morning.
Giovannie de SadeleerThe silent dog is the first to bite.
The words of elders are like the gooseberry: bitter at first, then sweet.
Think first. Talk less. Start today.
Charles SwindollTo be old and wise, you must first have to be young and stupid.
(unknown author)To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.
Janeane GarofaloToday is the first day of the rest of your life.
Charles DederichWhen the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
J.M. BarrieSource: Peter Pan
You get over your first love by falling in love with something new.
Mo IbrahimYour first accident may be your last.