Second Quotes
6250 quotes by 4203 authors
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Quite honestly, most people are quick to "write someone off." But our God is a God of the second chance. Learn from One who is…
— Woodrow M. Kroll
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September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.
— Robert Lowell
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There are many stages to a man's life. In the first stage, he is young and eager, like a beaver. In the second stage, he…
— Jack Handey
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If you ever feel like you're on the verge of a nervous breakdown, just follow these simple rules: First, calm down; second, come over and…
— Jack Handey
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Basically, there are three ways the skunk and I are a lot alike. The first is, we both like to spread our "stink" around. The…
— Jack Handey
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It looked something like a pen wiper and something like a piece of hearth-rug. A second and keener inspection revealed it as a Pekinese puppy.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match
— Jimmy Connors
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I have finally mastered what to do with the second tennis ball. Having small hands, I was becoming terribly self-conscious about keeping it in a…
— Erma Bombeck
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Well Terry, can you tell us where you are in the league, how far are you ahead of the second team?
— Ian St John
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I have stood in a bar in Lambourn and been offered, in the space of five minutes, a poached salmon, a leg of a horse,…
— Jeffrey Bernard
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Alain Prost is in a commanding second position
— Murray Walker
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The gap between the two cars is 0.9 of a second, which is less than one second
— Murray Walker
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Your game is only as good as your second serve
— John Newcombe
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Let's just say it and be done with it. Racing hurts. But here's another truth: having put in the effort to prepare for a race…
— Lawrence Shapiro
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Second place is the first loser.
— Dennis Anderson
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The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
— Enid Bagnold
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In the first act, you get the audience's attention - once you have it, they will repay you in the second. Play through the laughs…
— Noel Coward
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As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments;…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Without chemical slaughterhouses, without a systematic mass murder, the tragedy of the Jews is just one out of the numerous tragedies that befell the nations…
— Jurgen Graf
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Would the media insist on having a Holocaust-denier to balance any report about the Second Word War?
— Caroline Lucas
Who Wrote These Second Quotes
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