Second Best Quotes - Page 2

• We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

  Aristotle

  People, Evil, Nicomachean Ethics

  Aristotle (1983). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.

  Ted Allen

  Cooking, Feelings, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best.

  Jim Henson

  Accepting, Percent

  15 Copy quote

• Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouse…discretions apply elsewhere

  Amit Abraham

  Honesty, Spouse, Policy

  7 Copy quote

• The wise screen writer is he who wears his second-best suit, artistically speaking, and doesn't take things too much to heart.  He should have a touch of cynicism, but only a touch. The complete cynic is as useless to Hollywood as he is to himself.  He should do the best he can without straining at it.  He should be scrupulously honest about his work, but he should not expect scrupulous honesty in return.  He won't get it.  And when he has had enough, he should say goodbye with a smile, because for all he knows he may want to go back.

  Raymond Chandler

  Wise, Goodbye, Honesty

  9 Copy quote

• [Director Christopher] Nolan has not only crafted the best Batman movie, but arguably the second-best motion picture superhero narrative (topped only by the linked duo of Superman and Superman II). For those who thought Spider-Man and X-Men had a lot to offer, wait till you see where this film goes. Batman Begins is a strong re-start to a franchise that deserves better than it has often been accorded.

  James Berardinelli

  Strong, Men, Waiting

  "Batman Begins (2005)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The difference between the first and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition -- it is a matter of a hair, a shade, an inward quiver of some kind -- yet what miles away in the point of preciousness!

  William James

  Art, Differences, Hair

  William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, Cosimo, Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in a room doing skull-numbing rote memorization of vocabulary, grammar, key phrases, and colloquialisms. The best way is in bed.

  Chuck Thompson

  Vocabulary, Keys, Games

  7 Copy quote

• I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.

  Jim Courier

  Baseball, Player, College

  "Interview With Davis Cup's American Coach Jim Courier". Tennis Now Interview, bleacherreport.com. November 30, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.

  Dean Acheson

  Men, Conversation, Memorandum

  7 Copy quote

• Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.

  Iris Murdoch

  Sleep, Sound, Born

  10 Copy quote

• Don't go for second best. Put your love to the test.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Tests

  4 Copy quote

• By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

  George Carlin

  Honesty, Comedian, Elimination

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Military, War, Winning

  14 Copy quote

• The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.

  Orson Scott Card

  Fighting, Thinking, Funny Things

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Red Prophet: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.235, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came

  Sophocles

  Light, Speech, Born

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.202, University of Chicago Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.

  Edward Abbey

  Done, Should

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What I look for is a man who can be a friend, someone who is an equal and one with whom I feel comfortable. I want to be happy and loved, and not settling for something second best and less than I deserve. But a relationship of and by itself is not what is going to make this gal survive - a relationship is the cherry on the top of the cake

  Jennifer Aniston

  Men, Cake, Looks

  5 Copy quote

• Charles could care less about shoes - and he suspected he wasn't alone among men in his feelings. Shoe, no shoe, he didn't care. Naked was good, though over the past couple of weeks he was beginning to think that dressed in his clothes was a decent second best.

  Patricia Briggs

  Couple, Past, Men

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Hunting Ground”, p.91, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Kind, Rejects, Comparison

  6 Copy quote

• I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone. Then this is my life and maybe, however unlikely, I'll find my way back there. Or maybe, one day, I'll settle for second best. And on that same day, hell will freeze over, the sun will burn out and the stars will fall from the sky.

  Daniel Handler

  Relationship, Stars, Fall

  16 Copy quote

• Any guy, even imaginary, would just feel like second best. Second best to what? I don't even have an image of the perfect boyfriend. I just know he must exist. Because I have all these feelings-love, longing, wanting to be touched, dreaming of being kissed-yet no one to focus them on.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Dream, Perfect, Focus

  4 Copy quote

• For me, the international expansion of eBay was the best idea. We are now in 35 countries, and have a huge global network. The second best one was the acquisition of PayPal - the wallet on eBay.

  Meg Whitman

  Country, Ebay, Ideas

  Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. January 24, 2008.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I ever win you," he said, anger bright in his pale eyes, "it will be because you want me more. Not because he's gone. I'm nobody's second best.

  Ann Aguirre

  Eye, Winning, Gone

  Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.167, Macmillan

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm tired of being your best friend. I'm tired of being second best. I won't settle for that anymore. It's all or nothing, Schuyler. You have to decide. Him or me. - Oliver Hazzard-Perry

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Tired, Your Best Friend, Settling

  7 Copy quote