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Half Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
- There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It…
- Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
- Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
- So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.
- It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
- Experience is only half of experience.
- What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
- It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.
- Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
- Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half 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