Half Quotes - page 5

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. (Bertrand Russell)
An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future? View quote
Jules Verne
Ninety percent of this game is half mental. View quote
Yogi Berra
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. View quote
Helen Keller
Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it. View quote
John Steinbeck
I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year A handsome house to lodge a friend A river at my garden's end A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing. View quote
Golda Meir
Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream. View quote
William Wordsworth
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. View quote
Vitruvius
Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them. (Arsène Wenger)
Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it. View quote
C. P. Scott
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. View quote
Stephen Leacock
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep. View quote
E. W. Howe
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other. View quote
Novalis
No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him. View quote
William Shakespeare
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money. (Arthur Godfrey)
I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. View quote
Jay Gould
I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year. View quote
Bette Davis
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. View quote
Mark Twain
When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer. View quote
Sherman Alexie