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87 If at first you don't succeed, don't try skydiving.
288 If you want to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the Universe. <BR> -- Carl Sag…
396 The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time... the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time.
397 If you can't get your work done in the first 24 hours, work nights.
399 If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damned fool about it.
406 To define recursion, we must first define recursion.
414 The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. <BR> --…
424 If at first you don't succeed, see if the loser gets anything.
433 The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equal…
458 …g a woman by candlelight... and seeing her the next day at the beach. The first meeting requires i…
494 …first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all thos…
509 A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half of his life.
555 If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, the first woodpecker to come along …
640 If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
757 …nheimer (1904-1967) (citing the Bhagavadgita, about witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion)
831 Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. …
840 Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish. <BR> -- Mark Twain
857 …ok to get them out of the natural consequences of that occurrence, and so first thing you know, th…
916 … overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. <BR> -- Mark …
961 …ad, and on the following day, October 8th, the nation celebrated its very first July Fourth. <BR> …
995 We hired a local captain for the first afternoon of our cruise to demonstrate the finer points of s…
1022 The Ten Plagues of Egypt are: blood, darkness, blight, slaying of the first born, wild beasts, lice…
1060 …ed in 1666 by the Great Fire of London, which was followed in 1667 by the first recorded attack on…
1062 …r Stone). This was very significant, because it enabled scholars, for the first time, to decipher …
1073 In 1869, the Suez Canal was finally completed, which meant that for the first time ships could go f…
1075 …realized that San Juan was in Puerto Rico. Historians believe this is the first known instance of …
1076 …d at them for being named "Wilbur" and "Orville," successfully tested the first airplane. <BR> -- …
1118 Sitting around for no reason in the guise of being engaged in productive work was the first real gu…
1169 Don't worry, it only seems kinky the first time.
1226 Don't believe the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing -- it was here first. <BR> --…
1237 Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third. <BR> -- Knute Rockne, (1888-1931), U.S. foo…
1303 The first and greatest commandment is: Don't let them scare you. <BR> -- Elmer Davis (1890-1958)
1697 Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first. <BR> -- Bill Cosby, Time Flies
1917 The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. <BR> -- …
1949 We should forgive our enemies, but only after they have been hanged first. <BR> -- Heinrich Heine (…
1958 This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we m…
2135 The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. <BR> -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Henry V…
2159 In the first place, God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards. <BR> -- Mar…
2209 Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest. <BR> -- Wilson Mizner (187…
2345 I'm from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union. <…
2367 One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. <BR> -- Sir…
2383 All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first. <BR> -- James Thurbe…
2427 Men have more problems than women. In the first place, they have to put up with women. <BR> -- Fran…
2436 The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women. <BR> -- Lady Nancy Astor (1879-1964),…
2510 My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed u…
2719 …fending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppress…
2721 … one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. <BR> -- H. L.…
2746 Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe. <BR> -- Laurence J. Peter (1919 …
2763 Illusion is the first of all pleasures. <BR> -- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
2773 To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. <BR>…
2813 … again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he a…
2833 …ion. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. <BR> -- Ronald Re…
2841 … the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousa…
2856 I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first. <BR> -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-18…
2859 Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. <BR> -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), third US …
3232 The first myth of management is that it exists. <BR> -- Heller's Law
3235 If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came…
3276 If you like it, it fits, and you can afford it, it falls apart the first time you wash it. <BR> -- …
3282 The first bug to hit a clean windscreen lands directly in front your eyes. <BR> -- Drew's Law
3294 The one who snores will fall asleep first. <BR> -- Bedfellow's Rule
3324 The first place to look for anything is the last place you would expect to find it. <BR> -- Law of …
3383 When an error has been detected and corrected, it will be found to have been correct in the first p…
3386 Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first. <BR> -- Murphy's Fourth Co…
3409 The first bug to hit a clean windshield always lands directly in front of the driver's eyes. <BR> -…
3434 The inside contact you just made at great expense is the first to person to be let go in any re-org…
3457 If it's in stock, it didn't need replacing in the first place. <BR> -- Campbell's Third Law of Auto…
3458 In order to get a loan, you must first prove you don't need it. <BR> -- Collateral Corollary
3549 In the years since the start of what was first called the Microsoft Network, Mr. Gates has tried do…
3557 The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient oper…
3558 …t was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place. <BR> -- Dou…
3559 … It does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'OK' first. <BR> -- Arno Scha…
3565 …mmer Microsoft is going to introduce the first portable toilet with Internet access. You know why …
3681 Earth first! (We'll strip-mine the other planets later).
3761 If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
3762 If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
3763 If at first you don't succeed, give up, no use being a damn fool.
3764 If at first you don't succeed, look in the trash for the instructions.
3765 If at first you don't succeed, quit; don't be a nut about success.
3766 If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
3767 If at first you don't succeed, try a shorter bungee.
3904 The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
3937 Today is the first day of the rest of this mess.
4003 Short term memory is always the first to go.
4035 The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. <BR> --Abbie Hoffman
4074 If you eat a live frog first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen to either of you for t…
4130 …ly, obsessively, driven to have sex...and those who are not. We are all children of the first kind.
4136 There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are m…
4150 Gollum used to wear it at first, till it tired him; and then he kept it in a pouch next his skin, t…
4185 Two scientists walk into a bar. The first one says "I'll have some H2O." The second says "I'll have…
4186 Two kittens on a sloped roof. Which one slides off first? The one with the lowest mew.
4206 Why were the Indians here first? They had reservations.
4209 I didn't like my beard at first. Then it grew on me.