Quotes with second-best

Quotes 1081 till 1100 of 1600.

• The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

  Robert Frost
  American poet (1874 - 1963)
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• The best things in life aren't things.

  Art Buchwald
  American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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• The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

  Josh Billings
  American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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• The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

  Bette Davis
  American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  Barbara Corcoran
  American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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• The best time to make friends is before you need them.

  Ethel Barrymore
  American actress (1879 - 1959)
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• The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
  

  Agatha Christie
  British writer (1890 - 1976)
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• The best training any parent can give a child is to train the child to train himself.

  Adolph P. Gouthey
  American writer
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• The best translation is not that which is most like the original but which is the most different from it.

  Gamaliel Bradford
  American biographer, critic, poet, and dramatist (1863 - 1932)
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• The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it.

  Bill Klem
  American professional baseball umpire (1874 - 1951)
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• The best under-the-radar rivalry is Dodgers-Giants. I had no idea how deep that one was until I moved to California... that one goes waaaaaaaaay back, and both sides absolutely detest each other. Fights in the stands, fights in the parking lot, the whole thing. It's every bit as bitter as Yankees-Red Sox without nearly the same hype.

  Bill Simmons
  American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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• The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.

  Berton Braley
   
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• The best vision is insight.

  Malcolm Forbes
  American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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• The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

  Lord Quintin Hogg Hailsham
   
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• The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

  Kwame Nkrumah
  Ghanaian politician and revolutionary (1909 - 1972)
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• The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

  Robert Frost
  American poet (1874 - 1963)
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• The best way to be more like me is to be more like you.

  Alan Cohen
  American businessman (1954 - )
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• The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

  Gene Fowler
  American journalist, author and dramatist (1890 - 1960)
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• The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

  Benjamin Disraeli
  English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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• The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.

  Balthus
  Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• under-the-radar
• dodgers-giants
• faint-hearted
• waaaaaaaaay
• yankees-red
• independent

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