Better Half Quotes

• True love is when both people think they have the better half of the deal.

  Simon Sinek

  True Love, Love Is, Thinking

  Twitter post from Jan 04, 2010

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• But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

  Richard Cobden

  Half, Welsh

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.404

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• In a good marriage each is the others better half.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Half, Good Marriage

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• My ability to persuade my wife to marry me was quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one's better half.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Wife

  "Churchill by Himself". Book by Richard Langworth, p. 511, 2008.

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• Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Night, Half, Other Half

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• A friend of mine, a friend of yours. My better half, Richard Stephen Sambora

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Half, Mines

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• In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Self, Justice, Diversity

  Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• To pray well is the better half of study.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Half, Study

  Martin Luther (1885). “Luther's Table-talk”

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• 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

  Time, Science, Done

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• Don't blink. You just might miss your babies growing like mine did. Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your 'better half' Of fifty years is there in bed. And you're praying God takes you instead. Trust me friend a hundred years goes faster than you think So don't blink.

  Kenny Chesney

  Mom, Baby, Dad

  Song: Don't Blink, Album: Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates, 2007

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• Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sex, Men, Evil

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.156, A&C Black

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• Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter of the rights of little nations (like little Belgium), as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Determination, Men, Rights

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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