Second Quotes

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 only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Family, Writing, Friends

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

Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.
Shannen Doherty

Chance, Everybody, Ask

Because in a split second, it's gone.
Ayrton Senna

My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.' I didn't want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced.
Jennifer Lawrence

Someone, Person, Before

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
Augustine of Hippo

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'
Tommy Cooper

Age, Bad, Woman

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.
Robin Williams

Pretty, Himself, Language

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

Power, Else, Shall

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
Bobby Knight

Learn, Write, Greater

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.
Ayrton Senna

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Half, Century, Complete

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Logan P. Smith

Life, Enjoy, Two

As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
Dorothy Day

Give, Ourselves, Injustice

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.
Giacomo Casanova

Time, Past, Laugh

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

Boredom, Worst, Crime

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
Salman Rushdie

Great, Artist, Weak

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

Life, Money, Long

When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.
Annette Funicello

Life, Change, Single

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
Baltasar Gracian

Wait, Pass, Impulse

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.
Leland Stanford

Women, Best, Selfish

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
Simone Weil

Truth, Nobody, Force

If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.
Louis C. K.

Romantic, Woman, Made

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.
Margaret Walker

Peace, Freedom, Courage

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
Josh Billings

Time, Long, Enough

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.
Thomas S. Monson

May, Effort, Achieve

Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
Jack Nicholson

Job, Acting, Everybody

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.
Tori Amos

Time, Girl, Last

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

Sure, Agree, Chapter

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