Second Quotes

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

Rather, Rome, Village

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

Nature, Why, Afraid

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

Justice, Put, Often

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
John Ruskin

Education, Government, Food

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

Goal, Bitterness, Try

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

Rather, Rome, Village

No one remembers who came in second.
Walter Hagen

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

Says, Bear, Amendment

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

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

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Heart, Give, Same

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

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
Robert Staughton Lynd

Birthday, Time, Remember

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

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

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

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

Second place is just the first place loser.
Dale Earnhardt

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

Event, Fraction

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

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
Helen Rowland

Marriage, Her, She

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

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

Great, Children, Chance

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

Power, Press, Periodical

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

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

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Euripides

Thoughts, Wisest, Among

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

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

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