Half Quotes - page 3

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time. (Helen Rowland)

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.

Richard Dawkins

Desire is half of life indifference is half of death.

Kahlil Gibran

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

Charles Baudelaire

By night an atheist half believes in a God.

Edward Young

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

Eric Hoffer

Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.

Gottlob Frege

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

Mark Twain

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. (Mark Twain)

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

Pierre Corneille

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Winston Churchill

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

C. S. Lewis

There are also half bricks. ...As the bricks are always laid so as to break joints, this lends strength and a not unattractive appearance to both sides of such walls.

Vitruvius

Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.

Bill Cosby

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.

Johannes V. Jensen

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Margaret of Valois

Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.

Nam June Paik

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Knowing that you possess a talent is half the battle in mastering it. (Lin Carter)

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Henry David Thoreau

In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.

George Eliot

I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half.

Jan Timman

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