Top 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
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
Richard Strauss
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
First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.
Leo Rosten
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
B. C. Forbes
Richard Strauss 
Judy Garland 
Doris Lessing 
Abraham Maslow 
F. Scott Fitzgerald 
Oliver Wendell Holmes All 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 
61% of people like this quote
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
Richard Strauss
57% of people like this quote
First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.
Leo Rosten
54% of people like this quote
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
54% of people like this quote
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
B. C. Forbes
53% of people like this quote
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland
52% of people like this quote
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
52% of people like this quote
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
Maurice Ravel
52% of people like this quote