Quotes with second-best

Quotes 1581 till 1600 of 1600.

  • Euripides Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Babe Ruth [Written by Ruth in a St. Mary's hymnal, at the age of fifteen:] George H Ruth World's worse singer, world's best pitcher.
    Inscription in hymnbook
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bill Frist America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Carl Hagelin Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.
    Carl Hagelin
    Swedish ice hockey player (1988 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Carol Loomis If a company's stock is undervalued - as many managers believe theirs is - a repurchase may offer the best payoff of all.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Adele In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Pablo Picasso Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Helen Keller The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Cate Campbell The best swimmers are the ones that almost don't try the most... It's just about relaxing and enjoying it.
    Cate Campbell
    Malawian-born Australian athlete (1992 - )
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  • Thomas Alva Edison The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Britt Daniel There are so many songs out there in the world that - if I know we have to come up with a new cover, then I'll just sit in my room and sing song after song and figure out which one I can kind of sing the best.
    Britt Daniel
    American musician (1971 - )
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  • Alistair Cooke These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Thomas Fuller Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Ambrose Bierce To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Simone Weil To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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