Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best.
By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
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.
No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.
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.
I don't play any tournaments to come second best.
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
When it comes to renewable energy, there's no reason America should settle for second best.
When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.