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When Eve upon the first of Men
The apple press'd with specious cant,
Oh! what a thousand pities then
That Adam was not adamant! — Thomas Hood

I remember the first guy who offered me a joint in the bathroom. I said 'No, man, I've got enough problems.' — Steven Tyler

Wondered, not for the first time, how exactly Snow White had managed to live with seven men without murdering at least one of them — Carly Phillips

Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image. — Ludwig Feuerbach

The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke. — Shawn Ashmore

[He] looked at her as though she'd lost her mind, and [she] had her first experience of men rewriting history. I did no such thing [he said] — Jude Deveraux

The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him. — Aaron Hill

Our first relationship with a male is with our fathers. It affects how we relate to men forever. — Graeme Simsion

I was listening to the inclusiveness of Spider-Man, and why he's so appealing to so many people, but I didn't connect it all at first. — Brian Michael Bendis

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy. — Richard Gere

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy. — Friedrich Nietzsche

For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders. — Bernard Rudofsky

No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him. — Alexander MacLaren

Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first. — Charles Spurgeon

Sit a man on his ass with nothing to do but eat and the first thing that goes is his mind. It never fails. — Joanna Russ

When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood. — Charles Fletcher Dole

Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow. — Emile M. Cioran

A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Men are brittle, I reckon. They don't bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them. — Joe Abercrombie

It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state. — Benjamin Whichcote

I wanted to reach out and stroke her, to be gentle and tender towards her. Take care of her. — James Lusarde

To be completely featured as human. First of all, man must live with the truth. — Khem Veasna

I tell them that in Finland the first thing men coming back from the front wanted was sex; only after that did they take their skis off. — Johanna Sinisalo

Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints. — Mae West

I wasn't feeling well in the first half. I felt down, man. I had three slices of pizza before the game and the food took me down. — Leroy Loggins

First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations. — Renate Linnenkoper

For life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which man first gives himself. — Neville Goddard

This was the first time I noticed it, the inevitable space between father and man. — Karen Thompson Walker

Men don't realize that if we're sleeping with them on the first date, we're probably not interested in seeing them again either. — Chelsea Handler

When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice — Ayn Rand

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man." — Marcus Aurelius

I am as free as nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran. — John Dryden

That wouldn't be a first, now would it?"
"Jean."
"Jean Grey is dead, Agent."
"Yeah, that'll last. — Joss Whedon

It was "a shape to make men weep," wrote Firdred of Bain when he first saw it: "exactly the shape of a desecrated sea. — Sofia Samatar

We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer. — Jimmy Buffett

Men. Do they all evade as first line of defense? — Karen Marie Moning

Literature nowadays is a trade ... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets. — George Gissing

The must have it now mentality, was man's first step into the gorging of his natural home. — Lotte Hass

If our men and women in uniform are restricted from buying first-class airfare, the same should apply to Congress. — Raul Ruiz

When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes. — Calamity Jane

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy. — Mahatma Gandhi

Men deal with life as children with their play,
Who first misuse, then cast their toys away. — William Cowper

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think. — Helen Keller

They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men. — John Dryden

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. — Niccolo Machiavelli

No man can climb the ladder of success without first placing his foot on the bottom rung. — James Cash Penney

I don't see any god up here first man in space, while in space. — Yuri Gagarin

Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know. — Alexander Pope

First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men. — Ginny Brown-Waite

God, now she knew what decent men felt like, the disquiet before taking someone for their first time. — J.R. Ward

Man is by definition the first and primary weed under whose influence all other weeds have evolved. — Jack Harlan

Man mind yoursel is the first commandment. — James Hogg

In the same way I have always regarded boxing as a first-class sport to encourage in the Young Men's Christian Association. — Theodore Roosevelt

It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth? — Gertrude Atherton

To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing. — John Locke

That's the first time I've seen sex between two men on the BBC. — Eamon Dunphy

When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul. — Oswald Chambers

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you. — Charles Dickens

The first guy who lays a finger on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks! — Gene Mauch

Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him. — Helmut Schoeck

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them. — Edith Hamilton

Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet. — Eric Hoffer

Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that. — Andy Warhol

Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I was a switchboard operator on the first season of 'Mad Men.' I was the oldest and bitterest. — Stephanie Courtney

What a childhood I had, why, when I took my first step, my old man tripped me! — Rodney Dangerfield

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize. — Aristotle.

No man has any right to speak to men about God who has not first spoken to God about men. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first. — Swami Vivekananda

'Mad Men' was one of the first shows where Netflix was the first syndication window. — Jon Feltheimer

like most men skilled at their work they were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand. — Cormac McCarthy

For a woman's words to wound would require a man to listen first! — Meredith Duran

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. — Helen Rowland

She sighed. "All men are the same." "So are all women - after the first nine. — Raymond Chandler

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself. — Romain Rolland

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts. — Henry David Thoreau

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement. — Vilayat Inayat Khan

Respect gods before demigods, heroes before men, and first among men your parents; but respect yourself most of all. — Pythagoras

Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus. — Timothy Keller

I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory. — Henry David Thoreau

Men throw broken things away, but God never uses anything until he first breaks it. — Adrian Rogers

No man preaches his sermon well to others if he does not first preach it to his own heart. — John Stott

First Citizen Come, come, we fear the worst; all shall be well. Third Citizen When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks; — William Shakespeare

Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild. — Augustus William Hare

O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou. — Edward Dyer

A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first. — William James

In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government. — Woodrow Wilson

The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride. — Robert Browning

The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice. — Laozi

To the game I'm true like the sun first rose
I'm real like my man Michael Jackson's first nose — Dred Scott

The first successful salesperson was not a man, it was Eve. — Harvey MacKay

Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding. — Sophocles

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that. — Louis L'Amour

Beware, for as you sleep, the exhausted man will be first to reach the peak. — Chrisse Feros

A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway. — Gelett Burgess

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. — Henry David Thoreau