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Half Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf;…
- The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
- The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the…
- Half a truth is better than no politics.
- Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of…
- A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.
- Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent…
- Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses
- An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be…
- It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.
More Half Quotes
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this… — Rowan Atkinson
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
- I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I… — David Attenborough
- Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. — Marcus Aurelius
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
- I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him. — Teresa of Avila
- The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by… — Charles Babbage
- My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals. — Sebastian Bach
- One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare,… — Michelle Bachelet
- A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. — Francis Bacon