Best wise & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Works, including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition: withletters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

“The reputation of a Don Juan gives to a man the most dangerous power. Wise virgins resist it, but foolish virgins frequently yield to the desire to take a celebrated lover from a rival - even from a friend. This emotion is a complex one, mad up of vanity, respect for another woman's taste, and the need to establish self-assurance by winning a difficult victory. Don Juan chose his first mistresses; later he was chosen.”

“To form a truly free constitution, that's to say, truly just and wise, the first point, the main point, the capital point, is that all the laws be agreed on by the people, after considered reflection, and especially having taken time to see what's at stake.”

People Firsts Form Law Taken Wise Reflection Constitution Stakes

Author:Jean-Paul Marat

“Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex North was supposed to do Sand Pebbles, but he got sick, so Fox preempted me out of Grand Prix, and to my good fortune, I got to do Sand Pebbles. It was my first time working with Robert Wise and it was a great experience.”

Firsts Wise Century First Time Sick Fortune Sand Contracts Foxes 20th Century Good Fortune Alex Pebbles Great Experiences Grand Prix

Author:Jerry Goldsmith

“If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the way of simplicity. Now as always God discovers Himself to "babes" and hides Himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent. We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond.”

Ifs Way Firsts Found Religious Effort Darkness Doubt Wise Childhood Essentials Approach Simplicity Determine Gods Will Thick Impress Simplify Babe Prudent Candor

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can possibly possess. Had Charles the First and Louis the Sixteenth been more wise or more weak, more firm or more yielding, in either case they had both of them saved their heads.”

Men Firsts Cases Wise Talent Danger Circumstances Weak Difficulty Saved Firm Peculiar Mediocrity Quantum

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.”

Firsts Wise Fool Lays Gambling Traps Spiders Ambush

Book:The works of John Dryden now first collected ...

Source: The works of John Dryden now first collected ...

“Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.”

Men Firsts Lasts Law Wise Fashion Taste Foolish Suits Fantastic Tyrants Compelled

Author:Blaise Pascal

“God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret.... It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the Character of God, and to know... that he was once a man like us.... Here, then, is eternal life - to know the only wise and true God; and you have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves... the same as all Gods have done before you.”

Knows Men Firsts Done Character Heaven Secret Principles Wise Eternal Certainty Eternal Life Exalted True God Character Of God

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“It is always wise to remember that others will survive even if we are not there taking care of them. I found out that I feel so much better when I take an hour a day, just to take care of me and love myself. It keeps me from feeling so put upon by everything and everybody and helps me get through the day. By taking my hour early in the morning, I feel like I get my love first and I get it when I am at my best.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Helping Feelings Care Remember Found Hours Morning Wise And Love Take Care Help Me Leisure Love Myself Take Care Of Me

Author:Byllye Avery

“My friends, when I was young, were always older than I was, and I've always liked them. And I love old men and old ladies, really. But I've known more elderly men, like Max Beerbohm, like Beranard Berenson, like Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill-I'd put him first, anyway-what they say is so wise and so good. They know what they're talking about.”

Knows Men Firsts Young Talking Known Wise My Friends Old Man Elderly Max Old Lady

Author:Vivien Leigh

“The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.”

Firsts Kids Desire Steps Wise Awareness Environmental Appreciation Selfish Motive First Steps Stewardship Unselfish Selfish Desire

Book:Small Wonder

Source: Small Wonder

“I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's done in the business fashion whether it's promoting , marketing, whatever I'm doing.”

Firsts Done Wise Fashion Marketing Promoting Business First

Author:Snoop Dogg

“The wise men of antiquity, when they wished to make the whole world peaceful and happy, first put their own States into proper order. Before putting their States into proper order, they regulated their own families. Before regulating their families, they regulated themselves. Before regulating themselves, they tried to be sincere in their thoughts. Before being sincere in their thoughts, they tried to see things exactly as they really were.”

Men World Firsts States Whole Reality Order Wise Whole World Peaceful Sincere Antiquity Being Sincere

Author:Confucius

“Addison writes with the ease of a gentleman. His readers fancy that a wise and accomplished companion is talking to them; so thathe insinuates his sentiments and taste into their minds by an imperceptible influence. Johnson writes like a teacher. He dictates to his readers as if from an academical chair. They attend with awe and admiration; and his precepts are impressed upon them by his commanding eloquence. Addison's style, like a light wine, pleases everybody from the first. Johnson's, like a liquor of more body, seems too strong at first, but, by degrees, is highly relished.”

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence; and conversations with many eminent persons ...

“Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion.”

Men Firsts May Moments Lasts Winning Opinion Wise Fool Argument Sticks

Book:Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms

Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms

“Sometimes it is not wise to make a second plan; it diminishes the power of the first plan! In risky paths, make only one plan; this will increase the possibility of success! On the edge of a precipice, if your second plan is a parachute on your back, your possibility of falling will increase! When you have nothing to trust, you will be safer, because you have no right to make any mistake!”

Ifs Firsts Sometimes Success Fall Mistake Path Wise Plans Possibility Increase Edges Diminish Precipice Parachutes

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.”

Firsts Guy Wise Treated Vegas Wise Guy

Author:Don Rickles

“First, then, a woman will, or won't, - depend on't; If she will do't, she will; and there's an end on't. But, if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is, Fear is affront: and jealousy injustice.”

Ifs Firsts Ends Wisdom Sound Wise Depends Safe Injustice Affront Safe And Sound

Book:The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill: Esq; ...

Source: The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill: Esq; ...

“As good government is an empire of laws, how shall your laws be made? In a large society, inhabiting an extensive country, it is impossible that the whole should assemble to make laws. The first necessary step, then, is to depute power from the many to a few of the most wise and good.”

Should Firsts Made Country Whole Government Law Steps Wise Impossible Empires Most Wise

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.”

Men Mind Firsts Wells Age Young Imagination Wise Youth Invention Young Man Streams Lively

Book:The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author

“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”