Second Hand Quotes
101 quotes by 84 authors
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I'm really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to whatever your own…
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
— Samuel Butler
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In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination
— Mark Twain
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If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a…
— Audrey Hepburn
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I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.
— John le Carre
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The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs…
— Michael Polanyi
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Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there…
— Muriel Barbery
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Newspapers are the second hand of history.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at…
— William Hazlitt
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He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports…
— Henry David Thoreau
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There are more than 100 first- and second- hand witnesses to the retrieval of an extraterrestrial spacecraft and at least four extraterrestrial bodies from a…
— Steven M. Greer
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My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.
— Loni Anderson
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The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and , more importantly, his thinking become…
— Bruce Lee
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My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a…
— Wentworth Miller
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Ya know it's funny, what's happening to us. Our lives have become digital. Our friends, now virtual. And, anything you could ever wanna know is…
— Travis Rice
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I have ate out of your garbage cans to stay out of jail. I have wore your second-hand clothes…I have done my best to get…
— Charles Manson
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All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
— George Henry Lewes
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What is love but a second-hand emotion?
— Tina Turner
Who Wrote These Second Hand Quotes
84 authors contributed a total of 101 Second Hand Quotes, led by these top contributors: