Second Quotes - page 2

If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable. (Edward R. Murrow)

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

Omar Khayyám

If you love two people, pick the second, because if you truly loved the first, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

Johnny Depp

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

Eduardo Galeano

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

Erma Bombeck

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl S. Buck

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Annette Funicello

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

Emily Greene Balch

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

Thomas Jefferson

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. (Jim Backus)

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

Robert N. Bellah

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

Alexis de Tocqueville

There are some bored foreigners, with full stomachs, who have nothing better to do than point fingers at us... First, China doesn't export Revolution; second, China doesn't export hunger and poverty; third, China doesn't come and cause you headaches, what more is there to be said?

Xi Jinping

Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Thomas Carlyle

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.

Thornton Wilder

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

Montesquieu

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 day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

George Bernard Shaw

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else. (Mae West)

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

Iris Murdoch

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

Margot Fonteyn

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Ernest Hemingway

I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it.

Ann Coulter

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