| "Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half." »Gore Vidal |
| "Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now." »Raymond Smullyan |
| "Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees." »J. Willard Marriott |
| "Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them." »Walter Kerr |
| "Marriage is like a dollar bill. You cannot spend half of it when you tear it in two. The value of one half depends upon the other." »Joe Moore |
| "The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy." »Persian Proverb |
| "The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit." »Jimmy Breslin |
| "Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing." »Golda Meir |
| "Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within." »Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| "The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half." »Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time." »E. B. White |
| "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted the trouble is I don't know which half." »John Wanamaker |
| "Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes from intelligence." »Baslo |
| "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half." »Jay Gould |
| "The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children." »Clarence Darrow |
| "Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves." »George Santayana |
| "Half circus and half Supreme Court." »James Barrett Scotty Reston |
| "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." »J. R. R. Tolkien |
| "Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world." »Albert Einstein |
| "It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor." »Neil Gaiman |
| "In battling evil, excess is good for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Half of what I say is meaningless but I say it so that the other half may reach you." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me." »Althea Gibson |
| "The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think." »Clarence Darrow |
| "Mike Look, we're gonna spend half the night driving around the Hills looking for this one party and you're going to say it sucks and we're all gonna leave and then we're gonna go look for this other party. But all the parties and all the bars, they all suck. I spend half the night talking to some girl who's looking around the room to see if there's somebody else who's more important she should be talking to. And it's like I'm supposed to be all happy 'cause she's wearing a backpack, you know" »Swingers |
| "Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear." »Dinah Mulock Craik |
| "Well begun is half done." »Aristotle |
| "Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it." »Publilius Syrus |
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