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Firsts Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not…
- Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.
- I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.
- The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one…
- The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
- All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
- Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening…
- When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up…
- We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable…
- I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.
- The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the…
- Our first duty is not to be poor.
- How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
- [...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered…
- Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years…
- Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.
- First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
- Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
- The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
- Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
- You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
- I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals…
- All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting…
- The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and…
- New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
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- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
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- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
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