One Half Quotes

130 quotes by 117 authors

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. — Francis Bacon
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. — Charles Baudelaire
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory… — Charles Baudelaire
I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other. — Anne Bronte
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone. — Emily Bronte
A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours. — Ray Fitzgerald
One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do… — Carl Zuckmayer
If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence. — Alexis de Tocqueville
The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep. — Aristotle
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of… — Seneca the Younger
'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one… — Thomas Jefferson
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily… — George D. Prentice
Satan would seem to be mannerly and reasonable; making as if he would be content with one-half of the heart, whereas God challengeth all or… — Joseph Hall
Malice drinks one-half of its own poison. — Seneca the Elder
The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all… — Thomas Paine
I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we… — Mike Easley
One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences… — Blaise Pascal
I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell. — Omar Khayyam

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