Quotes with second-best

Quotes 701 till 720 of 1600.

  • Andy Warhol 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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  • Bess Myerson Mama never told me, 'Bess, you did good.' She wanted the best for us and she was an incredible administrator. She ran those three kids, that house, the whole bit. But if I looked fine, she'd find something wrong - the color, the hem... I used to tell her, 'Mama, don't worry when you're not with me, because you're with me.'
    Bess Myerson
    American politician and model (1924 - 2014)
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  • Wernher von Braun Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
    Wernher von Braun
    German-American rocket scientist and scientist (1912 - 1977)
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  • Albert Einstein Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Lord George Byron Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Jim Backus Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
    Jim Backus
    American radio, television, film, and voice (1913 - 1989)
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  • Brene Brown Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Algernon Sydney Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Douglas Jerrold Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Samuel Johnson Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • H. Jackson Brown Jr Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
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  • Helen Rowland Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Robert Thibodeau May he who is highest serve best.
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  • May Sarton May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.
    May Sarton
    American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995)
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  • Philip Roth Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.
    American Pastoral (1997)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Paul Auster Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Fanny Brice Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
    Fanny Brice
    American comedienne and singer (1891 - 1951)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Samuel Smiles Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Candice Bergen Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
    Candice Bergen
    American actress (1946 - )
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