Best Half Quotes

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same 50% rate. Half the time I get what I want, half the time I don’t… Same as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe…same as the Voodoo Lady who tells you your fortune by squeezing the goat’s testicles, it’s all the same: 50-50. So just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself.

One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.

It takes great effort to follow the rules of a pull system … thus a half-hearted introduction of a pull system brings a hundred harms and not a single gain.

Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

When people ask for time, it’s always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn’t take half as long to say.

Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long.

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience – visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.

I never see the glass half empty because I drink out the bottle

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living – only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.

For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn’t difficult.

Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.

I don’t quite recollect how many tumblers of whiskey toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one o’clock in the morning, the baillie’s grown-up son became insensible while attempting the first verse of ‘Willie brewed a peck o’ maut’; and he having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany, it occurred to my uncle that it was almost time to think about going.

I used to, like, hit for a half hour and then go eat Cheetos the rest of the day, come out and drill forehands. Now I’m really trying to make it happen, being professional, really going for it, and I miss my Cheetos.

Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going.

Flourishing goes beyond happiness, or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy. But that’s not the half of it. Beyond feeling good, they’re also doing good-adding value to the world.

I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.

In a good marriage each is the others better half.

Who knows if this other half of life where we think we’re awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

I’d rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don’t believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.

Every man at three years old is half his height