I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
Iris Murdoch

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
Anacharsis

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Jean Baudrillard

Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything that comes in second.
Paul Bryant

Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
Paul Bryant

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.
Bill Shankly

Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.
James Brown

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
Arthur Conan Doyle

For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together.
Reba McEntire

Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.
Bruce Babbitt

I don't get into that second guessing of myself publicly.
Stephen Harper

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.
Edward R. Murrow

Then I tried out for the Fontana High School drum line, in Riverside, and I did really well. I got second chair, and played snare in that drum line for three years.
Travis Barker

As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.
Gloria Estefan

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
Gloria Estefan

I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.
Thornton Wilder

Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
Hans Kung

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.
Emil Zatopek

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