Second Quotes

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.

~ Ridley Scott

Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.

~ Shannen Doherty

I have a second chance on life.

~ Katy Perry

Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice.

~ Trevor Brooking

Woman was God's second mistake.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.

~ Werner Herzog

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

~ Douglas William Jerrold

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

~ Jean De La Bruyère

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

~ Richard M. Nixon

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.

~ José Ramos-Horta

The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.

~ Martin Van Buren

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

~ Steven Spielberg

If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.

~ John Clare