Second Quotes - page 3

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless... (Oscar Wilde)
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. View quote
André Weil
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. View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut. View quote
Paddy Ashdown
It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on. View quote
Henry Fielding
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends. View quote
Boris Yeltsin
The first degree of folly is to conceit one's self wise the second to profess it the third to despise counsel. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
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)
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. View quote
Bob Dylan
You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect-you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break-her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there. View quote
Bob Marley
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
Look to your health and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of a blessing that money cannot buy. View quote
Izaak Walton
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred. View quote
George Bancroft
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs. View quote
Jean Cocteau
In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world. View quote
Franz Kafka
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. View quote
Karl Marx
History always repeats itself twice first time as tragedy, second time as farce. (Karl Marx)
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings. View quote
Quentin Crisp
There are no second acts in American lives. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything. View quote
Pierre Dukan
First things first, second things never. View quote
Shirley Conran