#first

It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#character #class #comforts #common #consist

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#amendment #anything #books #business #films

I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#found #i #interesting #law #law school

The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty. ↗

— Walter Matthau

#bed #first #girl #go #pretty

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#comfortable #first #general #habits #know

Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know. ↗

— Amelie Mauresmo

#erase #first #guess #happened #i

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#avoid #first #lengthy #meditation #past

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#must #novel #person #writing

To add value to others, one must first value others. ↗

— John C. Maxwell

#first #must #others #value

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement. ↗