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You never marry the person you first see 'Casablanca' with.

You never marry the person you first see 'Casablanca' with.

Kinky Friedman (2000). “Spanking Watson”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

"Kinky Friedman Talks with Bill O'Reilly About Why He Wants to be Governor of Texas". The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. March 14, 2005.

At some point you're like, gosh, this rehab is never going to end, and then all of a sudden I'm full strength and I'm about to go to my first competition. So I feel really great.

"37-year-old Olympian explains how she stays so dominant at an age when most athletes retire". Interview with Emmett Knowlton, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2016.

First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.

Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.250, Atlantic Monthly Press

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.

Julia Margaret Cameron, Anita Ventura Mozley (1974). “"Mrs. Cameron's Photographs from the Life": Exhibition Held 22 January-10 March 1974, Stanford University Museum of Art”

God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.

John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.53, Penguin

Better the last smile than the first laughter.

John Ray (1855). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index; in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.330