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half Quotes
- A good front is half the battle in love or war. ...
- A half-truth is a whole lie. ...
- A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a...
- A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. ...
- A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him...
- A wise man's question contains half the answer. ...
- Alice laughed. There's no use trying, she said. One can't believe impossible things. I daresay you haven't had much...
- All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection...
- Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education...
- Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided, - not hal and half, not...
- Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn...
- Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery...
- Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear. ...
- Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by...
- Confessed faults are half mended. ...
- Confidence is half the victory. ...
- Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater...
- Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first. ...
- Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first...
- Half circus and half Supreme Court. ...
- Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is...
- Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important....
- Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes from intelligence. ...
- Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you....
- Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves. ...
- Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. ...
- Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. ...
- Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not. ...
- Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear. (promoting US exports, as quoted in Time)...
- Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of...
- Hell is a half-filled auditorium. ...
- [He's] so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes. ...
- I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. ...
- I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. ...
- I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time...
- If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses...
- If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he...
- If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger...
- I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just...
- In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken. ...
- Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a...
- Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. ...
- Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. ...
- Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard. ...
- Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived. ...
- Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he...
- Marriage is like a dollar bill. You cannot spend half of it when you tear it in two. The...
- May you be in heaven a half-hour before the devil knows your dead. ...
- Most people go on living their everyday life: half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that is...
- Ninety-nine percent of this game is half mental. ...
- None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your...
- On packing: Lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then, take half the clothes and twice the...
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. ...
- Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest...
- Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow. ...
- The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not...
- The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer. ...
- The beginning is the half of every action. ...
- The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If...
- The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half...
- The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression. ...
- The real wit tells jokes to make others feel superior, while the half-wit tells them to make others feel...
- The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly...
- The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even...
- There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite...
- There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. ...
- This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth...
- To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half...
- To the good listener, half a word is enough. ...
- To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass...
- Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel...
- We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have...
- We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better...
- We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it,...
- What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour. ...
- Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this...
- When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. ...
- When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then...
- When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can...
- Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. ...
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Yankee Doodle