Second Hand Quotes

101 quotes by 84 authors

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
Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. — Samuel Butler
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination — Mark Twain
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
I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man. — John le Carre
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
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
Newspapers are the second hand of history. — Arthur Schopenhauer
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I have ate out of your garbage cans to stay out of jail. I have wore your second-hand clothesâ€¦I have done my best to get… — Charles Manson
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand. — George Henry Lewes
What is love but a second-hand emotion? — Tina Turner

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