Half Quotes

Courage in danger is half the battle. (Plautus)
Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider. View quote
George Carlin
I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. It is so hard. View quote
Steve Jobs
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. View quote
Jane Austen
He who is afraid is half beaten. View quote
Alexander Suvorov
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. View quote
Clarence Darrow
Well begun is half done. View quote
Aristotle
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. View quote
Gore Vidal
Don't sleep too much. If you sleep three hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in. View quote
Aristotle Onassis
Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing. View quote
Faina Ranevskaya
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness. (Hermann Ebbinghaus)
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! View quote
Winston Churchill
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet. View quote
Yehudi Menuhin
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements. View quote
Norman Mailer
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. View quote
P. L. Travers
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power. View quote
Harriet Martineau
DEMOCRACY n The recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time. View quote
E. B. White
Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half. View quote
Francis Bacon
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. View quote
Will Rogers
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. View quote
Terry Pratchett
I have not told half of what I saw. (Marco Polo)
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone. View quote
Emily Brontë
Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal - there's the trick! View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
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. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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