Quotes with second-best

Quotes 1061 till 1080 of 1600.

  • John F. Kennedy The best road to progress is freedom's road.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Sir William Temple The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • William Shakespeare The best safety lies in fear.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Walter Lippmann The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Ben Bernanke The best solution to income inequality is providing a high-quality education for everybody. In our highly technological, globalized economy, people without education will not be able to improve their economic situation.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Bill Bryson The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.
    Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Jeremy Taylor The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Karl Barth The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
    Karl Barth
    Swiss theologian (1886 - 1968)
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  • Thornton Wilder The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Carole Berman The best thing about doing needlepoint for very small children is that they are so uncritical. The don't say things like, I see you've missed some stitches over here on the leg, was that intentional? or Was this creature blinded in a fight? They will clasp it in their little arms and love it besottedly, inseparably as the thing becomes more and more rancid.
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  • Brion James The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.
    Brion James
    American actor (1945 - 1999)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
    The wit and wisdom of Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Douglas Jerrold The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • John Ruskin The best thing in life aren't things.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Sebastian Faulks The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
    Engleby (2007)
    Sebastian Faulks
    British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Victoria Billings The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.
    Victoria Billings
    American writer
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  • Dorothy Day The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
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