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

Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
Daniel Boone

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

After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.
Bruce Willis

Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.
Paul Newman

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
Jackie Gleason

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Henry James

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
Henry James

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

Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.
S. E. Hinton

People wonder why first-time directors can make a brilliant picture, then suck on the second one. It's because they're a little terrified the first time. So they listen to all the experts around them.
James Caan

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

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

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

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

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

Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
Thucydides

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
Evelyn Waugh