Authors:

Half Quotes - Page 37

Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.

Alexander Pope (1849). “Letters of Alexander Pope Works and Arranged Expresly for the Use Young People”, p.217

By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound

Adam Smith (1784). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.24

want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.

Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

"Zaha Hadid: 'Being an Arab and a woman is a double-edged sword'". Interview with Huma Qureshi, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

Victorian Age (Rede Lecture delivered at Cambridge, 1922) p. 49

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.99, ACP Press

Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.136, Belford Bros.

If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in.

William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.171