Second Best Quotes

106 quotes by 98 authors

My friend Heinrich Zimmer of years ago used to say, 'The best things can't be told,' because they transcend thought. 'The second best are misunderstood,'… — Heinrich Zimmer
But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a compromise with being,… — Thomas Ligotti
Hang on to your dreams with everything you got. Because the best life is when your dreams come true. The second-best is when they don't… — Tim Dorsey
The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For… — Aristotle
Celtic jerseys are not for second best, they don't shrink to fit inferior players — Jock Stein
The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To… — John Denver
Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best. — William Lyon Phelps
The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is probably… — Robert A. Heinlein
Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came — Sophocles
Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law — Auberon Waugh
The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing… — Friedrich Nietzsche
...the greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For God loves obedience… — Soren Kierkegaard
If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in… — Steve Backley
We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils. — Aristotle
Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best. — Jim Henson
Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouseâ€¦discretions apply elsewhere — Amit Abraham
The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win. — Robert A. Heinlein
Don't go for second best. Put your love to the test. — Madonna Ciccone
The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway… — Ted Allen
Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best. — Iris Murdoch

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