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The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

– Charles M. SchwabRate it:

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

– PlutarchRate it:

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

– SchopenhauerRate it:

The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.

– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelRate it:

The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.

– Jonathan KozolRate it:

The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

– Clarence DarrowRate it:

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.

– Clarence DarrowRate it:

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

– Clarence DarrowRate it:

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

– Clarence DarrowRate it:

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

– Gertrude SteinRate it:

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

– Sigmund Freud, (Attributed)Rate it:

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

– Sigmund FreudRate it:

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.

– Maria MontessoriRate it:

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

– William TempleRate it:

The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.

– H. L. MenckenRate it:

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person --- her husband.

– Lady Bird JohnsonRate it:

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

– Claudia Alta Taylor JohnsonRate it:

The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.

– William SafireRate it:

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

– Thomas SowellRate it:

The first love-letter is an epoch in love's happy season — it makes assurance doubly sure — that which has hitherto, perhaps, only found utterance in sweet and hurried words, now seems to take a more tangible existence. A love-letter is a proof of how dearly, even in absence, you are remembered.

– Letitia Elizabeth LandonRate it:

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

– Salvador DaliRate it:

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

– Salvador Dali, from Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp, by Pierre Cabanne, 1987, pp. 13-14Rate it:

The first marriage for a man is a big lesson, the second a grave blunder, the third a fatal accident, the fourth an apocalypse.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

– Benjamin FranklinRate it:

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