For they cannot sleep, except they have first done some mischief: neither take they any rest, except they have first done some harm.

Prepare your work outside
And get it ready for yourself in the field;
Afterward build your house and establish a home.

Honor the Lord from your wealth
And from the first of all your produce;

While He had not yet made the earth and the fields,
Nor the first dust of the world.

The man who first puts his cause before the judge seems to be in the right; but then his neighbour comes and puts his cause in its true light.

A heritage may be got quickly at first, but the end of it will not be a blessing.

The first sign of wisdom is to get wisdom; go, give all you have to get true knowledge.

The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past.