I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
Bob Dylan

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Napoleon Bonaparte

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
Mae West

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Ernest Hemingway

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
Jim Rohn

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
Plato

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.
Rodney Dangerfield

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Karl Marx

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Donald Trump

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.
Voltaire

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
Lance Armstrong

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
Rush Limbaugh

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
Audrey Hepburn

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'
Audrey Hepburn

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
Niccolo Machiavelli

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
Julius Caesar

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Blaise Pascal

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
Woody Allen

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
Jackie Kennedy