Second Quotes - page 2

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing. (Bill Shankly)
There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight. View quote
Natalie Clifford Barney
Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse. View quote
Omar Khayyám
If you love two people, pick the second, because if you truly loved the first, you wouldn't have fallen for the second. View quote
Johnny Depp
We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. View quote
Eduardo Galeano
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
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. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change. View quote
Annette Funicello
A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. View quote
Jim Backus
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. View quote
Robert N. Bellah
The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
There are some bored foreigners, with full stomachs, who have nothing better to do than point fingers at us... First, China doesn't export Revolution; second, China doesn't export hunger and poverty; third, China doesn't come and cause you headaches, what more is there to be said? View quote
Xi Jinping
Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee Thy second duty will already have become clearer. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day. View quote
Thornton Wilder
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked. (Montesquieu)
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid. View quote
Henry James
The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. View quote
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else. View quote
Mae West
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