Second Quotes

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

Beauty, Marriage, Money

Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder.
Tia Mowry

Work, Chance, Makes

The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.
George Harrison

Career, Getting, Since

I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.
Jeff Foxworthy

Family, God, Friends

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

Children, Parents, Lives

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
Rachel Griffiths

Dreams, Someone, Nothing

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
Epicurus

Rather, Rome, Village

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.
Arnold J. Toynbee

Two, Storm, Plan

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.
Ayrton Senna

Car, Win, Enough

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
Emo Philips

Give, Free, Away

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
Billy Sunday

Women, Men, Today

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
Arthur Schopenhauer

History, Hand, Hands

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.
John Milton

Confusion, Light, Darkness

First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
Oksana Baiul

Life, God, Giving

The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.
Robin Williams

Says, Bear, Amendment

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
Samuel Johnson

Time, Happy, Wife

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
Samuel Butler

Enough, Able, Culture

I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.
Noel Coward

Life, Through, Either

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
Laura Schlessinger

Great, Children, Chance

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
Marcel Proust

Nature, Knowing, Nor

Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance.
Reba McEntire

Easter, Important, Chance

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
Jessamyn West

Ignorance, Two, Young

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
Andrew Carnegie

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

Kiss, Rest, Takes

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Power, Press, Periodical

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Event, Fraction

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Euripides

Thoughts, Wisest, Among

Second place is just the first place loser.
Dale Earnhardt

There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.
Louis Dudek

Two, Sick, Kinds

If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.
Jennifer Lopez

Time, Strong, Long

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