Top 25 Second Best Quotes of 32 - Page 2

By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

Honesty, Comedian, Second Best

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

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, Second Best

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

Second best is not good enough really. Although if someone turned around now and said 'you will be promoted, but you will come in second' then I would take it.

Steve Howey

Not Good Enough, Second Best, Good Enough

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, Second Best

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

Madonna Ciccone

Tests, Second Best

Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so much less to go around.

Lorrie Moore

Second Best, Settling

Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.81, Faber & Faber