Half Quotes

• A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Trust, Travel, Truth

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• A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Ballroom

  "Strictly Ballroom". www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Men, Expression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.222, Harvard University Press

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• Life is half spent before we know what it is.

  George Herbert

  Life, Bad Ass, Reality

  George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.177

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• I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Family, Party, Book

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom, Educational, Creativity

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• Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Nature, Soul

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 5

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• Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

  Novalis

  Faith, One Half

  Novalis, Arthur Versluis (1989). “Pollen and fragments: selected poetry and prose of Novalis”, Phanes Pr

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• Well begun is half done.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Philosophical

  Aristotle (2012). “Politics”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul.

  Henry Rollins

  Unconditional Love, Soul, If You Love Someone

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• I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.

  Jewel

  Feelings, Alive, Feels

  Song: You Were Meant for Me, Album: Pieces Of You, 1995

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• Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Pain, Divorce

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Family, Marriage, Funny Love

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1738

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• A painting that is well composed is half finished.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Art, Architecture, Painting

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• Half the truth is often a great lie.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Truth, Lying

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.90, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Military, Victory, Be Prepared

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.346

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• Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Life, Wisdom

  Letter in New York Times 29 Apr. 1930

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• I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

  Debi Thomas

  Dream, Stupid, Goal

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• The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

  E. W. Howe

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  "Country Town Sayings: A Collection of Paragraphs from the Atchison Globe". Book by Edgar Watson Howe, p. 9, 1911.

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• I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Quiet, Sometimes, Disappear

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  Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Political, Voting

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Jul 26, 2011

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• Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Strength, Adversity

  Norman Vincent Peale “The Power of Positive Thinking”, Om Books International

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• The wish for healing has always been half of health.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspiration, Healing, Health

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

  Edmund Waller

  Should Have, Improvement, Praise

  Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller ...”, p.150

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