Best Firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 21

Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

“You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word.”

People Ifs Firsts Soul Reason Spirit Influence Talent Criticism Hearing Neighbor

Book:The Marquis of Lossie

Source: The Marquis of Lossie

“It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team.”

Feels Firsts Doe Stars Team Atheism Delight Farmers Abstraction Exquisite Conducting Astronomers

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“The gravity is the first thing which you don't think”

Thinking Firsts Gravity

Author:Albert Einstein

“Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.”

Firsts Letters Affection Heirs

Book:Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

Source: Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

“Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?”

Men Firsts States Joy Duty Sorrow Reflection Mercy

Author:William Shakespeare

“Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some say, of the first that was ever written.”

Thinking Firsts Written Generations Poet Satire

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.”

Firsts Has Beens States Father Natural Conditions Source Authority Ancient Obvious Bored Fancy Latin Hymns Ennui Tedium

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense has no following and is tartly reminded that 'it isn't in the dictionary' - although down to the time of the first lexicographer no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary.”

Ifs Firsts Use Used Language Grows Innovation Following Recognizing Dictionary Unfamiliar Discerning New Words Lexicographer

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.”

Writing Trying Firsts Book Reading Difficult Originals Trade Productions Destroying Daring Books And Reading Great Author

Author:Andre Maurois

“If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.”

Ifs Men Firsts Self One Thing Sea Behave Stomach Conceit Comrade Conceited Insufferable

Author:Mark Twain

“One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.”

Ifs Firsts Character Assuming

Book:Mark Twain Speaks for Himself

Source: Mark Twain Speaks for Himself

“I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself.”

Firsts Looks Soul Hands Lines Study Late Sacred Mere Suspects Portraits Exalted Rapture Portraiture Self Portrait Self Portrait Photography

Book:Mark Twain's works

Source: Mark Twain's works

“France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one, and the first choice of all not under those ties.”

Giving Firsts Country Would Be Earth Choices Fortune Monsters France Ties Preference Bonaparte Second Choice

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

“The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented.”

Firsts Home Found Records Majors Majority Invention Sat Pioneers Electrical Phonograph

Author:Dave Barry

“Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second”

Firsts Battle Captains Waterloo

Book:Les Miserables Volume One

Source: Les Miserables Volume One

“In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.”

Firsts Christ Novel Hero Faust

Book:Ein Granatapfelhaus

Source: Ein Granatapfelhaus

“The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth, of culmination; its bliss lasts as much as five minutes, until the first typographical error or production flaw is noticed.”