Quotes with first-born

Quotes 501 till 520 of 1905.

  • Henry Wotton He first deceased; she for a little tried to live without him, liked it not, and died.
    Henry Wotton
    English diplomat, politician and writer (1568 - 1639)
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  • Lord Chesterfield He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Bram Stoker He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Bob Dylan He not busy being born is busy dying.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle He that can work is born to be king of something.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Samuel Johnson He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • P. Massinger He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
    P. Massinger
     
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  • Jonathan Swift He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
    Source: Polite Conversation (1738)
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Bob Dylan He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Aristotle He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Adele Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • E. B. White Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Ben Jonson His opinion of verses.
    That he wrote all his first in prose, for so his master Camden had learned him. That verses stood by sense without either colours or accent; which yet other times he denied.
    Source: Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Bill Nye History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Box Brown Honestly, I try to think about when I first got into wrestling, and I remember Wrestle Mania VI being the first time that I watched Wrestle Mania as it happened.
    Box Brown
    American cartoonist
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  • Thomas Jefferson Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Akhenaton Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • George Bernard Shaw How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Birch Bayh How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier How dwarfed against his manliness she sees the poor pretension, the wants, the aims, the follies, born of fashion and convention!
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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