Quotes with second-best

Quotes 181 till 200 of 1600.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ben Nicholson At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Lord George Byron At twenty three the best of life is over and its bitters double.
    Journal entry of 1811 titled: Four or Five Reasons in Favour of a Change
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Albert Camus Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
    Original: L'automne est un deuxième printemps où chaque feuille est une fleur.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • C. S. Lewis Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life. But of course, like autumn, it doesn't last.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Robert Browning Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Samuel Johnson Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Billy Evans Ball teams do not always run true to form in a short series. In a season's campaign, class will tell; the best team will invariably win, unless disaster overtakes it. In a short series, some freak situation, same unusual play, may prove to be the turning point.
    Billy Evans
    American umpire in Major League Baseball (1884 - )
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  • Bill Veeck Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • Babe Ruth Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Alan Cohen Be clear on where you are and where you want to go and you will get there. It can be the best year of your life.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Bob Seger Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • E. M. Forster Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Bill Rancic Because of the fact that we've been through so much, we're going to appreciate every step of being parents. I think we're going to savor it and cherish it and we're going to be the best parents we can be.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Brigitte Nielsen Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.
    Brigitte Nielsen
    Danish actress, model and singer (1963 - )
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  • Andy Warhol Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Carl Hubbell Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.
    Carl Hubbell
    American baseball player (1903 - )
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  • George Eliot Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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