In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
William Penn

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
Honore de Balzac

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
Honore de Balzac

The Japanese campaign involves therefore two great uncertainties; first, whether Russia will come in though we think that will be all right; and second, when and how S-1 will resolve itself.
Henry L. Stimson

I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.
Kanye West

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.
David Ogilvy

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

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.
Jean Kerr

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
Sophocles

A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
Agatha Christie

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
W. E. B. Du Bois

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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 that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.
Steven Tyler

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
William James

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
Jean-Luc Godard

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
Quentin Crisp