No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.
No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.
There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist.
All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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