Quotes with second-best

Quotes 1021 till 1040 of 1600.

• The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

  Jane Porter
  English writer (1776 - 1850)
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• The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.

  Brene Brown
  American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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• The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

  Arthur C. Clarke
  British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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• The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it ain't the gout.

  Josh Billings
  American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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• The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin
  American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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• The best mind altering drug is the truth.

  Lily Tomlin
  American Comedienne (1939 - )
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• The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.

  Ronald Reagan
  American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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• The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.

  Barbara Corcoran
  American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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• The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  American president (1890 - 1969)
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• The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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• The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

  Burton Hillis
   
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• The best of men cannot suspend their fate: the good die early, and the bad die late.

  Daniel Defoe
  English writer (1660 - 1731)
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• The best of prophets of the future is the past.

  Lord George Byron
  English poet (1788 - 1824)
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• The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.

  Asa Gray
  American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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• The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
  

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.

  Caity Lotz
  American actress, dancer and singer (1986 - )
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• The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

  Thornton Wilder
  American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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• The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

  William Hazlitt
  English writer (1778 - 1830)
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• The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

  Carlos Santana
  Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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• The best path through life is the highway.

  Henri-Frédéric Amiel
  Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• differentiated
• multitudinous
• distinctively
• difficulty
• definition
• forgivable

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