First Law Quotes

67 First Law quotes by 55 unique authors

The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither… — William Matthews
Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality. — Margaret Way
First law: The pesticide paradox. Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods are… — Boris Beizer
I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too… — Billie Jean King
The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it. — Howard Mumford Jones
Loyalty is the first law of God. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from… — Alexander Pope
R-4 got stuck on the First Law. "Can anyone really protect a human being from all harm whatever?" it thought. "No. It is inevitable that… — John Thomas Sladek
The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy. — Mao Zedong
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest. — Alexander Pope
Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired. — Paul Dickson
Adams first law of survival: Get even first. — Randall Dale Adams
Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to… — Erasmus Darwin
The first law of humanity is not to kill your children. — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging. — Denis Healey
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging! — Denis Healey
Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down. — Paul Newman
Order is heaven's first law. — Alexander Pope
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -… — Voltaire
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature. — Voltaire
Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of… — Hiromu Arakawa
The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;… — Isaac Asimov
The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what is is. From… — Terry Goodkind
And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours, Claire? I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted… — Diana Gabaldon

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