| "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time." »E. B. White |
| "Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. Or something. I dunno, I was only half listening. Becca said it, anyway. Ask her." »M Scott Peck |
| "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 |
| "To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time." »P. G. Wodehouse |
| "I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true." »Debi Thomas |
| "Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear. (promoting US exports, as quoted in Time)" »Phil Gramm |
| "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 |
| "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted the trouble is I don't know which half." »John Wanamaker |
| "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 |
| "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half." »Jay Gould |
| "Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes from intelligence." »Baslo |
| "The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children." »Clarence Darrow |
| "Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time." »Robin Green |
| "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 |
| "We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. (On lack of national identity)" »Lester Bowles Pearson |
| "Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save." »Will Rogers |
| "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 |
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