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One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen. — Johannes Brahms

Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not. — George MacDonald

A half-hour conversation with Binky was like eating a Whitman Sampler in one sitting. — Armistead Maupin

I am basically an eternal existence
momentarily and perhaps needlessly
terrified by one half of itself.. — Alan W. Watts

between one-third and one-half of all marriages fail, — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I love being one half of a romantic couple. — Julianna Margulies

I am free to confess that I am disappointed with the Yosemite valley. It seems only about one-half as grand as the American Fork canyon. — Heber J. Grant

Stayed awake on purpose until half past eleven one evening in order to have a good look at the moon for once by myself. — Anne Frank

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep. — Aristotle.

Ahh, women! I never met one yet that was half as reliable as a horse! — John Wayne

I don't go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like going, 'Uhhh, I'm done' when I eat. — Patrice O'Neal

One's not half of two; two are halves of one. — E. E. Cummings

Older sisters are much alike the world over: half a cup of love and half one of contempt. — Alan Bradley

One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation. — David Ogilvy

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to. — George Bernard Shaw

One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning. — Connie Willis

I swear I've spent half my life hiding behind a couch and the other half wondering why no one was paying attention to me. On — Sarah Hepola

Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing — Ron Swanson

Dimka wondered what it must be like, to love a woman for half a century and then lose her, suddenly, between one beat of the heart and the next. — Ken Follett

I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half an hour long. — Alice Lowe

We've got facts, they say. But facts aren't everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Lucy constituted only 28 per cent of a half skeleton (and only about 20 per cent of a full one). — Bill Bryson

I recognize the fact that I don't have one single drop of Japanese blood in my body. But I've always felt half-Japanese at heart. — Scott Fujita

For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it. — Ethan Mordden

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

The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half. — David Levithan

I took a year and a half off, when my kid was born, because I didn't want to be one of those dads where the kid doesn't know who his dad is. — Michael Pena

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. — Samuel Johnson

One solution might be to impose the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men. — Phyllis Schlafly

Women
one half the human race at least
care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry. — Walter Bagehot

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home. — Rumi

Loving one another is half of wisdom. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Slightly less time than it takes one woman to make one life, they managed to snuff out a million and a half lives. — Paullina Simons

One of the greatest challenge facing young people today, is the
large scale availability of half truth's and manipulated facts — Oche Otorkpa

The poetic does not misrepresent the speech one half so much as the speech misrepresents the soul. — G.K. Chesterton

True admiration," said Mrs. Keith, "is one half respect and the other half self-denial. — Henry James

One is always half mad when one is shy of people. — Robert Walser

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough ... the more one reads the more one sees we have to read. — John Adams

One day you will have vengeance, little half-blood. You will stand upon a wasteland littered with your dead kin and you will be free. — Pippa DaCosta

One day private ringer you're going to smile at something I say and the world will break in half. — Rick Yancey

No one can read two thousand books. In the four hundred years I have lived, I've not read more than half a dozen — Jorge Luis Borges

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. — Thomas Jefferson

Six, one half dozen or the other ... — David Dweck

Violet, the Dowager Countess: I mean, one way or another, everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden. — Jessica Fellowes

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad. — Kenneth Grahame

The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one. — Emily Bronte

The first half was end-to-end stuff. In contrast, in this second half it's been one end to the other. — Lou Macari

Microsoft was twelve years old before people started talking about Microsoft millionaires; Netscape was one and a half. — Michael Lewis

They're called "better halves" for a reason, I guess. You can't have one half that's worse than you. It'd be a disaster. — Skyla Madi

It is my private life which no one knows anything about, nor ever will. It needs more than half my time if it is to be a success. — Marlene Dietrich

Don't settle for a half empty glass, always go for a full one! — Stephen Richards

Anyone with half a mind could see that," said Tiffany.
Miss Tick sighed. "Yes. But sometimes it's so hard to find half a mind when you need one. — Terry Pratchett

One boy's a boy; two boys be half a boy, and three boys be no boy at all', ran the old country saying. — Flora Thompson

The arrogant half smile I disliked so much tipped up one corner of his swollen lips. You're barely glowing now. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I think all those ancient prophecies are so full of poetic nonsense that half the time no one understands what they mean." ~ Helen — Josephine Angelini

Because we're soul mates, just like Aristophanes described- one soul in two bodies. You're my missing half. You're my bashert. — Sylvain Reynard

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

... one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half ... — Jane Austen

One half-conscious thought was burned in my mind: stay on your feet. — Gene Tunney

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

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment. — George Edward Woodberry

Half of what I write is imaginative reality. The other half is realized impossibilities. Blended into one, these make a fantasy. — Nicole Sager

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
— Sidney Howard

If you had to chose one half of your son, which one would it be?"
What kind of a question is that?!"
No need to snap. It was just a question. — Johnny Depp

Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames. — Khalil Gibran

One minute you're up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley. — Dan Aykroyd

I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger, nearly half an inch long, and black, fiercely contending with one another. — Henry David Thoreau

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. — Stephen Leacock

I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron. — Arnold Palmer

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life. — George Orwell

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen

I don't often spend more than half an hour in prayer at one time, but I never go more than half an hour without praying. — Smith Wigglesworth

If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight. — Tom Stoppard

(I'm) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it. — Benjamin Carson

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right. — Penn Jillette

The average asteroid actually will be about one and a half million kilometres from its nearest neighbour. — Bill Bryson

No one with a thirst for knowledge goes to the university now. Half of the faculty has resigned, the other half gives courses in advanced ignorance — Douglas Adams

What has three heads, six arms, and half a brain?" Three asked. One and Two answered in unison. "Nate Sutter. — Brandon Mull

With the grin of one who mistakenly thinks he's a wit when he's only half a one. — Terry Pratchett

Honestly, one-hour drama is the hardest format there is. I think it's harder than movies, and it's harder than half-hour comedy. — Alexis Denisof

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other. — Novalis

Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Never underestimate the power that one good workout can have on your mind. Keeping the dream alive is half the battle. — Kara Goucher

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping. — Thomas Hood

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying. — Mary Wilson Little

Your country and mine is an interesting one, but there is nothing there that is half so interesting as the human mind. — Mark Twain

When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending. — Anita Desai

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing. — Georges Carpentier

I would give worlds, could I believe
One-half that is profess'd me;
Affection! could I think it Thee,
When Flattery has caress'd me. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

the life span of any particular emotion is only one and a half minutes. After that we have to revive the emotion and get it going again. — Pema Chodron

It's just six of one and half-a-dozen of the other. — Frederick Marryat

When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential. — Dean Koontz

Then the two of us stood staring at one another. I had no idea what the fuck just happened, and only a part of me liked it. The other half loved it. — Whitney Gracia Williams

One might find men in Congress who possess twice your good looks, but not one who possesses half your good sense. — Seth Grahame-Smith

Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains. — Joseph Joubert

The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world. — Sydney, Lady Morgan

I do one sit up a day. I get up in the morning, that's the first half. I lay down at night, that's the second half. — Mark Lowry

Mashed-in nose, half of one ear missing, eyes the color of rotting squash. — Suzanne Collins

Here is a new game," said Scrooge. "One half hour, Spirit, only one! — Charles Dickens