If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again.
If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.
I mean, gosh, my first tours I ever did were with the Ramones and Iggy Pop and Love & Rockets.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.
Actually, the first songs I learned were imitations of Johnny Mathis.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.
The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.
We have the First Amendment to rely on whenever an elected official tries to impinge on our rights to speak.
The Obama Doctrine is the first presidential strategy in history that is exclusively about communicating - not implementing - policy. The Obama Doctrine seems to be 'tweet with overwhelming force.'
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
That was my first love growing up - classical orchestral music, especially Impressionism.
'Wingnuts' is the first book bearing the imprint of Beast Books.
At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.
I did 'Impromptu,' which was a thrill and a horror all at once - my first movie and having to do it in Paris, and my wife wrote it, and I had some difficulties on the set, blah, blah, blah.
When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
