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Best Firsts Quotes by Mark Twain
- Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
- In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
- If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat…
- The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
- No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
- There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
- Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human…
- Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
- When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you,…
- The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting…
- Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer
- Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.
- Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
- The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first
- Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great…
- We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped…
- ...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in -…
- The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy with the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
- It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in…
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- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- 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
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong