Half Quotes

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Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case… — Calvin Trillin
The people who have achieved more than you, in any area, are only a half step ahead of you in time. Bless them and praise… — Marianne Williamson
This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really… — Hugh Downs
The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or a prediction, but… — Llewellyn Rockwell
If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. — Abraham Lincoln
Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Half of science is putting forth the right questions. — Francis Bacon
Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science. — Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits: Keeps his nails… — Alfred Nobel
When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and… — William James
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… — John Owen
Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it… — Freeman Dyson
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half. — Gottfried Leibniz
You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can… — George Bernard Shaw
He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin! — Horace Walpole
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. — John Keats
Never meet trouble half-way. — John Ray
In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free.… — Abraham Lincoln
Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost. — Abraham Lincoln

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