Half Quotes

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.

The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited.

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.

[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste.

In a country where half a million die every year only for drinking polluted water, it is more necessary for us to do something for them.

It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

I'm 83 and a half years old and I feel fine. I feel like a teenager but I'm unable to do a lot of the things that I used to do but I enjoy life to the fullest.

I half cherish the hope that the end of history will be Swissness.

The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour.

This is as 'alone' as I'm likely to get with you - you're not half so fetching as your daughter.

Actually, I'm probably 99-and-a-half percent plastic now.

A German psychologist says that women talk more than men because they have a bigger vocabulary. But, it evens out because men only listen half the time.

Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.

Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!

Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.

Most people have this perception that you have to be out there running for an hour and a half every day. But you don't have to give up your career and family to run a marathon.

We started with 53,000 people. Half are gone, but surprisingly, most are still here!

Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues to be met by enormous inbuilt resistance.

I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all.

We have a balance of $ .32 in the bank . . . Which makes us four-and-a-half trillion dollars richer than the federal government.

All comedians are a bit attention-seeking and I'm no different. Anyone with the audacity to want to be listened to for an hour and a half must be.

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.

It was safe to assume that the rider would be carrying a weapon of some kind. After all, there was no point in wearing half armor and going weaponless.

There is an old saying "well begun is half done"-'tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all 'til half done.

Half of my heart’s got a grip on the situation, half of my heart takes time.

The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is depicted being cut in half by a larger pair of scissors.

It being our duty to mortify... we must be at work. He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave striking before the other ceases living, does but half his work.

About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have some appointment or favor to ask for their relatives.

Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state.

Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics.

The worst injury I've ever seen in a fight was with Anderson Silva when his leg snapped in half.

You can buy [John McCain's] book, but in a week and a half, he'll have another.

A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.

Have you ever noticed how many men in the Bible failed in the second half of life? Our enemy is so cunning that he will wait forty or even fifty years to set a trap.

I was not allowed to take notes but my friend and I memorised those two and a half pages. Most people talked to me because of the warning. They knew this book was not going to be the official line.

For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour.

The next time someone tells you, "The Church is full of a bunch of hypocrites." You can respond, "You don't even know the half of it."

Of course I'm sure half the people there hate me and half the people like me

I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.

Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.

Probably more than half of the people who go into psychology do so because they need help. I think it's their way of feeling that they have control.

The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself.

I sucked in the smell of her perfume, Viva La Juicy, and was swept away. La Juicy was part of my oxygen supply, even for the year and a half we were apart.

Half the business is done, when one has gained the heart and the affections of those with whom one is to transact it.

The first half was end-to-end stuff. In contrast, in this second half it's been one end to the other.

…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved.

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.