Our kindred first. [ Chamfort ]
First come, first served. [ Proverb ]
Work first, and then rest. [ Ruskin ]
Order is heaven's first law. [ Pope ]
The ripest fruit first falls. [ William Shakespeare ]
The first great law is to obey. [ Johann C. F. Von Schiller ]
The mother is the first teacher. [ E. D. Mansfield ]
Every artist was first an amateur. [ Emerson ]
The first mark of valor is defense. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
He that riseth first is first drest. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A first failure is often a blessing. [ A. L. Brown ]
The groves were God's first temples. [ Bryant ]
Adversity is the first path to truth. [ Byron ]
Happiness lies first of all in health. [ G. W. Curtis ]
First of human blessings! and supreme. [ Thomson ]
Virtue is the first title of nobility. [ Moliere ]
The finest poetry was first experience. [ Emerson ]
First thoughts are not always the best. [ Alfieri ]
O freedom, first delight of human kind! [ Dryden ]
Eden revives in the first kiss of love. [ Byron ]
Good taste consists first upon fitness. [ George William Curtis ]
We love Him, because He first loved us. [ Bible ]
Our first and last love is - self-love. [ Bovee ]
Every noble work is at first impossible. [ Carlyle ]
Brave men are brave from the very first. [ Corneille ]
Thou Great First Cause, least understood. [ Pope ]
The alphabet is a first step in language. [ A. Boyle ]
Fear in the world first created the gods. [ Statius ]
Sweetest memorial, the first kiss of love. [ Byron ]
Indolence and stupidity are first cousins. [ Rivarol ]
Voluptuous as the first approach of sleep. [ Byron ]
Scorn, at first, makes after-love the more. [ William Shakespeare ]
Glances are the first billets-doux of love. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]
Pride, the first peer and president of hell. [ De Foe ]
The first step to greatness is to be honest. [ Johnson ]
Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe. [ William Shakespeare ]
The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom.
None ever loved, but at first sight they loved. [ George Chapman ]
A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight. [ Dr. Johnson ]
A flower that dies when first it begins to bud. [ William Shakespeare ]
By her we first were taught the wheedling arts. [ Gay ]
It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched. [ Ovid ]
He that first came is not sure to be first served. [ Proverb ]
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. [ William Shakespeare ]
It is he who is in the wrong who first gets angry. [ William Penn ]
First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea. [ Moore ]
Who fears to offend takes the first step to please. [ Gibber ]
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain. [ Cowley ]
I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue. [ Cato ]
A diamond polished was first a diamond in the rough. [ G. W. Doane ]
That man lives twice that lives the first life well. [ Herrick ]
If you would be good, first believe that you are bad. [ Epictetus ]
Wine is a turncoat: first a friend, and then an enemy. [ Fielding ]
Humility is the first of the virtues for other people. [ Holmes ]
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad. [ Epictetus ]
A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love. [ Willmott ]
Genius always gives its best at first, prudence at last. [ Lavater ]
The first years of man must make provision for the last. [ Samuel Johnson ]
A gentleman's first characteristic is fineness of nature. [ John Ruskin ]
Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman. [ Mme. de Stael ]
He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first. [ Voltaire ]
The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. [ Addison ]
Public instruction should be the first object of government. [ Napoleon I ]
Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. [ Swift ]
Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good. [ Milton ]
The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time. [ Alexander Smith ]
I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility. [ John Ruskin ]
Journalism has already come to be the first power in the land. [ Samuel Bowles ]
The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [ Mme. du Deffand ]
The magic of first love is the ignorance that it can ever end. [ Beaconsfield ]
Be the first to say what is self-evident, and you are immortal. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]
Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery. [ Suckling ]
The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies. [ John Kay ]
At first babes feed on the mother's bosom, but always on her heart. [ H. W. Beecher ]
I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the first condition. [ Emerson ]
We never love heartily but once, and that is the first time we love. [ La Bruyere ]
The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love. [ Propertius ]
The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity. [ Balzac ]
The seeds of first instructions are dropped into the deepest furrows. [ Tupper ]
Things are not always what they seem; first appearances deceive many. [ Phaedrus ]
The first indication of domestic happiness is the love of one's home. [ M. de Montlosier ]
Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has for its first duty to forgive. [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]
No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first. [ Carlyle ]
The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made. [ Browning ]
Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste. [ Spurgeon ]
Patience, the second bravery of man, is perhaps greater than the first. [ Antonio de Solis ]
Why must we first weep before we can love so deep that our hearts ache. [ Richter ]
Oblivion is a second death, which great minds dread more than the first. [ De Boufflers ]
All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon languish. [ Tacitus ]
Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter ere long, back on itself recoils. [ Milton ]
Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar. [ Whately ]
A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked. [ A. Karr ]
What we hope ever to do with ease we must learn first to do with diligence. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The first want of any maritime tribe, or people, is commerce by navigation. [ Olive R. Seward ]
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking-glass. [ Rabelais ]
Ah! the spendthrift, love: it gives all and everything with the first sigh! [ Madame de Genlis ]
Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world. [ G. W. Curtis ]
It is impossible to be a hero in anything unless one is first a hero in faith. [ Jacobi ]
Beauty is the first present Nature gives to women, and the first it takes away. [ Mere ]
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity. [ Burke ]
Not for herself was woman first created, nor yet to be man's idol, but his mate. [ Mrs. Norton ]