First-rate Quotes
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A. A. Milne
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
B. C. Forbes
I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He's got all those techniques. If your plane crashes into the jungle somewhere, he would be the guy you would want to have with you.
Wes Anderson
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.
Evelyn Waugh
A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
Franz Liszt
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
Maurice Ravel
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes