Second Best Quotes - Page 4

• Of course, music is an art form, and it's not all that competitive. But we don't ever intend to be the second-best band on a stage at any show.

  Tom Morello

  Art, Band, Form

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• The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do.

  David Weber

  World, Idiot, Worst

  David Weber (2013). “The Honor of the Queen, Second Edition”, p.332, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• My friend Heinrich Zimmer of years ago used to say, 'The best things can't be told,' because they transcend thought. 'The second best are misunderstood,' because those are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which can't be thought about, and one gets stuck in the thoughts. 'The third best are what we talk about.'

  Heinrich Zimmer

  Years, Misunderstood, Used

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• But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a compromise with being, a concession to the blunder of creation itself. We should be able to do better, and we can. To have our egos killed off is second-best to killing off death and all the squalid byplay that flitters around it. So let all lands be small, and grower smaller and smaller until no lands are left where any human footstep need press itself upon the earth.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Land, Ego, Needs

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• The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.

  Aristotle

  Philosophy, Men, Words Of Wisdom

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• Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law

  Auberon Waugh

  Law, People, Rubbish

  Auberon Waugh, Anna Galli-Pahlavi (1985). “The diaries of Auberon Waugh, 1976-1985: a turbulent decade”, Andre Deutsch Ltd

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• The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Born, Best Things, All Things

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2003). “The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music”, p.48, Penguin UK

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• If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in the world.

  Steve Backley

  World, Want, Like You

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• Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.

  Herman Melville

  Women, Wife, Firsts

  Herman Melville (2016). “The Ambiguities”, p.17, Herman Melville

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• I don't think I would ever write a book with what anybody could call pornography in it, because I feel that pornography is a cheat. It is an attempt to provide sexual experience by secondhand means. Now sex is a thing which has to be experienced firsthand, if you are really going to understand it, and pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars. It's not the same thing. Sex is primarily a question of relationships. Pornography is a do-it-yourself kit--a twenty-second best.

  Robertson Davies

  Sex, Book, Mean

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• Given a conjecture, the best thing is to prove it. The second best thing is to disprove it. The third best thing is to prove that it is not possible to disprove it, since it will tell you not to waste your time trying to disprove it. That's what Gödel did for the Continuum Hypothesis.

  Saharon Shelah

  Science, Trying, Waste

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• Surgery is always second best. If you can so something else, it’s better. Surgery is limited. It is operating on someone who has no place else to go.

  John W. Kirklin

  Surgery, Ifs

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• You have friends and one of them is your best friend. And now, make the nature as your second best friend and spend time often with it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Nature, Your Best Friend, Spend Time

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• The iPad remains Apple's second bestselling product - all the more reason why the iPad Pro needs to be "big" in every sense of the word.

  Tim Cook

  Ipads, Apples, Needs

  Source: money.cnn.com

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• But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever penned this body of work was firstly well-travelled, secondly a multi-linguist and thirdly someone who had an innate knowledge of the inner workings and the mechanisms of a very secret and paranoid Elizabethan court. Edward de Vere ticks those three boxes and many more. William of Stratford gave his wife a bed when he died [his second best bed].

  Rhys Ifans

  Reading, Wife, Secret

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves and everything that goes with it? Seeing what he's learned and how he's done it? That's the second best thing to playing. I think.

  Jimmy Connors

  Winning, Player, Thinking

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• The best things in life are free

  Luther Vandross

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Song: The Best Things in Life Are Free

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• The best things in life are free - and $19.95.

  Billy Mays

  Sarcastic, Things In Life, Taxes Funny

  Interview with Lloyd Grove, www.entrepreneur.com. October 13, 2008.

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• When it comes to renewable energy, there's no reason America should settle for second best.

  Martin Heinrich

  America, Energy, Reason

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• Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best.

  Eric Liddell

  Missing, Missing Something

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• It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Song, Singing, Trade

  On Everything (1909) "On Song"

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• Celtic jerseys are not for second best, they don't shrink to fit inferior players

  Jock Stein

  Player, Jersey, Fit

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• Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.

  Aristotle

  Children, Race, Would Be

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• I don't play any tournaments to come second best.

  Andy Murray

  Sports, Winning, Play

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• As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.

  Alberto Manguel

  Reading, Crafts, Crowds

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