
I have wrought my simple plan
If I give one hour of joy
To the boy who's
half a man,
Or the man who's half a boy. —
Arthur Conan Doyle

I am
half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag. —
Randy Newman

But a man cannot renounce his life for half a day: There is either the rest of eternity or nothing. —
Antonio Di Benedetto

In the United States there are sixteen-and-a-half square feet of mall space for every man, woman, and child. —
Randy Alcorn

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far. —
Fannie Hurst

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. —
Kurt Vonnegut

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. —
Benjamin Franklin

A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives. —
Edwin Way Teale

When I lost you, it was as if all the solid ground dissolved from under my feet. Look at me; I'm a half-drowned man now, hanging onto a wreck. —
Henrik Ibsen

Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. —
Homer

Can't trust a man with only half his teeth, the gentleman agrees. They —
Rae Carson

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away
half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him. —
Homer

Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry. —
Lyndon B. Johnson

I'm not ancient, darling. I'm only fifty. And when it comes to sex a woman of fifty can often outlast a man half her age. —
Barbara Taylor Bradford

There is a man waiting for a woman like you, don't settle for someone who only opens half of your heart. —
Nikki Rowe

When a man but half forgives his enemy, it is like leaving a bag of rusty nails to interpose between them. —
Hugh Latimer

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely. —
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Rather know nothing than half-know many things! Rather be a fool on one's own account than a wise man in the opinion of others! —
Friedrich Nietzsche

To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers. —
George Whitefield

I also wouldn't mind if he tried out a little bit of what I'd read in chapter ten of the half-naked man book, especially the page I'd dog-eared. —
Donna Augustine

Sorry," a half-gestured apology as the man, ten years younger than George (who was thirty-seven), disappeared —
Philip J. Gould

We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me? —
Arthur Machen

There are some occasions when a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest. —
Lord Chesterfield

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell. —
Henry Fielding

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. —
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half. —
Benjamin Franklin

I'm like a man who's been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up. —
Daniel Keyes

If I got a flight to catch and I just bought a half o-z, I'll smoke it all - I can't get weed on a plane, 'cause I've been red-flagged. —
Method Man

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. —
George R R Martin

I felt bad when George Bush was booed. But only briefly. My sympathy for that man has a half-life of about four seconds. —
Dick Cavett

The noble woman is
half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women. —
Franz Grillparzer

A man in a nylon bikini, with that little knot sticking out in front, isn't half as interesting as a man in a good-looking business suit. Charlie —
Sue Grafton
Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage. —
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think if a man beats you and fucks half the women he sees and no one will help you, axing him isn't the least understandable thing you can do. —
Dennis Lehane

For a man, staying single in teenages is equivallent of smoking to two and a half packets of cigarettes. —
Srinivas Shenoy

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. Half of them don't dare tell me the truth, and the other half can't find it. —
George R R Martin

Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove. —
George R R Martin

A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant! —
Philip Roth

A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman. —
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man does not have himself killed for a half pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him. —
Napoleon Bonaparte

To really be over a man you, half the amount of time you dated has to have passed. —
Sally Jesse Raphael

half the headaches in a man's life involve woman and half the heartaches in a woman's life are because of a man. —
Novoneel Chakraborty
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He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half. —
Erwin Chargaff

There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millett's —
Half Man Half Biscuit

A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right. —
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend! —
John Candy
Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process. —
E.B. White

A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half. —
Ann Landers

The man who has half a million of dollars in property ... has a much higher interest in the government, than the man who has little or no property. —
Noah Webster

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits. —
Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man. —
James Thurber

Love sends a man half way around the world ...
Just for the hope of catching it. —
Jonathan Hickman

A man once told me that his dog was half pit bull and half Poodle. He claimed that it wasn't much good as a guard dog, but it was a vicious gossip. —
Stanley Coren

I'm not much of a jewelry man. I don't even wear a watch half the time. —
Red Schoendienst

Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies. —
Jean Paul

So a man will sometimes go through half an hour of mortal terror with a brigand, yet when the knife is at his throat at last, he feels no fear. —
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth. —
Elmer Davis

Sleeping with a man half your age can be exhausting, but if it's too much for him you can always find a younger man. —
Barbara Taylor Bradford

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles. —
Benjamin Franklin

There is always
laughter out of the speeding
vehicles for the man
who is still, half-way though he be
in a better direction. —
R.S. Thomas

We have seen in this chapter how, in less than half a century, man's view of the universe, formed over millennia, has been transformed. —
Stephen Hawking

A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself. —
Henry Ward Beecher

For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast! —
Tom Lehrer

The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only
half a man. —
Thomas Huxley

A half-man (or, rather, half-person) is not someone who does not have an opinion, just someone who does not take risks for it. —
Anonymous

The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage. —
Charles Bukowski

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other. —
Anne Bronte