"'Twas only fear first in the world made gods."
Ben Jonson(06/11/1572 – 08/06/1637)
English writer
"I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer."
Richard Strauss
"Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents."
William Gilmore Simms
"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."
Jeannette Rankin
"A lie is an abomination unto the Lord and an ever-present help in time of need."
John Tyler Morgan
"Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy."
Jacques Cousteau
"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."
Vince Lombardi
"There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then."
Hazel Scott
"Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter."
Dave Gardner
"A loud kind of Jewish genius—maybe that's as close as you can get to defining him."
Gene Wilder
"Why not find out when his birthday is, call the newspapers, and go dance on his grave?"
Ingrid Newkirk
"It's as if you're playing left-handed. Or like everyone else is playing with a tennis racket and you have a salmon."
Hugh Laurie
"Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America."
John L. Lewis
"Neither of us liked it; two guys on the air saying good night to each other didn't look quite right."
David Brinkley
