Second Quotes

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The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems,… — Plato
There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There… — Oscar Wilde
True friendship is self-love at second-hand. — William Hazlitt
Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by… — John Updike
Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and… — Gloria Steinem
The word hospitality in the New Testament comes from two Greek words. The first word means love and the second word means strangers. Its a… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
A true friend is a sort of second self. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm — Leonard Bernstein
At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster you… — Isaac Asimov
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time. — Henrik Ibsen
Supporting the English cricket team is like supporting a second division football team. I support Norwich City football team and when they lose I really… — Stephen Fry
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every… — John Ruskin
What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second. — Robert Breault
The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius. — Robert Breault
As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S.… — John Spratt
The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every… — Saint Augustine
In early historical civilization, lunar symbols wove together three major metaphorical concepts. The first is the idea of fertility. The moon controls the tides of… — Layne Redmond
Every parent craves for a child, and once their wishes come true, they feel that it's not possible for them to love anyone more that… — Kajol
So we raise her up every morning, we take her down every night, we don't let her touch the ground and we fold her up… — Johnny Cash
The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest… — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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