Half Quotes - page 2

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin. View quote
Horace
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. View quote
Charlotte Whitton
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. View quote
Edmund Waller
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does. View quote
Groucho Marx
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. View quote
Dorothy Day
Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be. View quote
George Carlin
He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons. View quote
Carlo Goldoni
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. View quote
Robert Frost
God save us all from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half. (Paddy Chayefsky)
It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. View quote
Samuel Johnson
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? View quote
Emil Cioran
Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The first blow is half the battle. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say. View quote
Edith Wharton
It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. View quote
Oscar Wilde
No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream. View quote
Thomas Moore
No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest, till half mankind were, like himself, possest. View quote
William Cowper
Life is half spent before we know what it is. (George Herbert)
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties. View quote
Agatha Christie
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. View quote
Yogi Berra
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. View quote
William Blake
Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances. View quote
Robert Crumb
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