Quotes 381 till 400 of 1516.
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Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
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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.
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Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
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Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
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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 -
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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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.
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Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
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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.
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Happiness lies first of all in health.
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Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.
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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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He first deceased; she for a little tried to live without him, liked it not, and died.
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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
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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.
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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
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He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Polite Conversation (1738) -
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
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