Quotes with second-best

Quotes 661 till 680 of 1600.

• Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.

  The Picture of Dorian Gray

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• Laughter is the best way to make somebody's heart beat.

  Robert Holden
   
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• Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

  John C. Maxwell
  American author, speaker, and pastor (1947 - )
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• Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

  James Madison
  American statesman, President (1751 - 1836)
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• Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

  Herman Melville
  American author (1819 - 1891)
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• Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

  John Milton
  English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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• Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

  Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

  Baltasar Gracián
  Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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• Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write threescore: this is the second of our reign.

  John Donne
  English poet (1572 - 1631)
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• Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

  Robert Green Ingersoll
  American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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• Let your best be for your friend...

  Kahlil Gibran
  Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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• Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

  John Erskine
  American educator and author, pianist and composer (1879 - 1951)
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• Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

  Oliver Goldsmith
  Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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• Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
  

  H. Jackson Brown Jr
  American author (1940 - 2021)
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• Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

  H. Jackson Brown Jr
  American author (1940 - 2021)
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• Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

  Gilda Radner
   
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• Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

  Paul Gauguin
  French artist (1848 - 1903)
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• Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

  Lady Randolph Churchill
  American-born British socialite, mother of Winston Churchill
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• Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

  Ben Harper
  American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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• Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

  Queen Elizabeth II
  Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand (1926 - 2022)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• eccentricities
• disagreements
• excellence
• threescore
• government
• everything

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