Second Quotes

6250 quotes by 4203 authors

The first time you buy a house you think how pretty it is and sign the check. The second time you look to see if… — Lupe Velez
In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and… — Antonio Gramsci
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. — Clarence Darrow
Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the… — George F Will
Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope — James Matthew Barrie
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The second office of this government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery. — Thomas Jefferson
Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can… — Federico Fellini
Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second… — Charles Dickens
Experience has two things to teach: the first is that we must correct a great deal; the second, that we must not correct too much — Delacroix
I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
In my friend, I find a second self. — Isabel Norton
In a friend you find a second self. — Isabelle Norton
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… — Izaak Walton
I recognize two kinds of faith. The first is the kind which is apparent in the world. It is the common denominator of most everything… — Boyd K Packer
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can… — DH Lawrence
In black America mother love is second only to the love of God - but just slightly. — Michael Eric Dyson
Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at second-hand from books or other… — William Hazlitt
And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a… — Bible
He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink… — Bible

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