Second Quotes

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. (Henry James)
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome. View quote
Julius Caesar
The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule. View quote
Warren Buffett
A friend is, as it were, a second self. View quote
Cicero
In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best. View quote
Euripides
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest. View quote
Confucius
Custom is almost second nature. View quote
Plutarch
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We must as second best ... take the least of the evils. View quote
Aristotle
A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest. (Helen Rowland)
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first A viper is not more hateful. View quote
Euripides
My brain it's my second favorite organ. View quote
Woody Allen
Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower. View quote
Albert Camus
The old are in a second childhood. View quote
Aristophanes
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. View quote
Clarence Darrow
Alcohol is like love," he said. "The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off. View quote
Raymond Chandler
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. View quote
Ben Hecht
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. View quote
Douglas Adams
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting. View quote
Helen Rowland
If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second. (Edward Bellamy)
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. View quote
Jean-Luc Godard
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mound the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second. View quote
Edward Abbey
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
📖 Second Proverbs