Quotes with first-naming

Quotes 381 till 400 of 1516.

  • Horace Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Arthur Christiansen Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.
    Arthur Christiansen
    British journalist, and editor (1904 - 1963)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Ronald Reagan Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Ben Jonson Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Robert Browning Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Grub first, then ethics.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Blaise Pascal Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Blaise Pascal Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • George William Curtis Happiness lies first of all in health.
    George William Curtis
    American journalist (1824 - 1892)
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  • Berkeley Breathed Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Richard Thalheimer Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
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  • 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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  • 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.
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  • Jonathan Swift He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
    Polite Conversation (1738)
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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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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