The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
~ Lactantius
First appearance deceives many.
~ Ovid
My first car was a motorcycle.
~ Adam Carolla
My first car was a BMW. A white BMW.
~ Jamie-Lynn Sigler
The first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle before a car.
~ John Travolta
I'm really proud of 'Cars.' 'Cars,' when it first came out, got probably the most mediocre reviews of a Pixar film.
~ John Lasseter
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
~ Edward De Bono
The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.
~ Juan Manuel Fangio
Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
~ John Keble
The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
~ Robert Herrick
I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.
~ Elizabeth Olsen
Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie.
~ Shawn Ashmore
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
~ William Osler
I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.
~ Jordin Sparks
'Hamilton' is, of course, closely tied to the Obamas because Lin first performed the opening number at a White House poetry jam.
~ Phillipa Soo
I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.
~ P. J. Soles
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.
~ Wilfred Burchett
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
~ Thucydides
When I first started, my songs were the politics of anger. As I got older and hopefully wiser, I wanted to be part of the politics of answers.
~ Michael Franti
Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.
~ Charles Simmons
The first thing is to hang on to everybody who is talented, who is entrepreneurial, who wants to make an impact and a change and start attracting ones.
~ Dan Gilbert
In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.
~ Peter Fenn
I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.
~ Lena Horne
A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories - I was the first guy to write about the dolphin killings in Japan.
~ Peter Heller
I think the first duty of society is justice.
~ Alexander Hamilton
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.
~ John Le Carré
Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.
~ Howard Mumford Jones
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
~ Stokely Carmichael
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
~ Georges Bernanos
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
~ Plato
Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
~ Aaron Allston
My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, and his stable jockey was Christy Roche.
~ Tony Mccoy
Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first.
~ Gina Bellman
I discovered freedom for the first time in England.
~ Emperor Hirohito
I like to keep most of my bats. I think I have about 250 bats, including my first - which cost Rs 2000 - a gift from my dad in 1998, when I moved to the hostel.
~ Suresh Raina
My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.
~ Clint Eastwood
My dad took on every job he could get. He worked like mad. But then, at some point, he had saved up enough to open his first pub.
~ Rita Ora
I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile.
~ Jeb Bush
