Half Quotes - Page 82

Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.

They tax when you earn a dollar, they tax you when you save it, they tax you when you invest it. If you earn a dividend, they tax it again, and if you're stupid enough to die, they steal up to half.

To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.

People always remember the second half.

People say Altamont was the end of the 60s. It was unfortunate, but at the time we didnt think of it as signaling anything. The fact that nobody got killed at Woodstock is amazing because that was half a million people. We only had 300,000 at Altamont.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

Getting picked gives you half that confidence, or 50 per cent of it

I don't think we came from monkeys. I think that's ridiculous. I haven't seen a half-monkey, half-person yet.

I haven't seen a half-monkey, half person yet.

I traveled with my mother, Lela, and there was never enough money. I always had to roll down my silk stockings and carry a doll when we bought train tickets so I could go half-fare. If we had $3, we always figured how to tip for the trunks and still eat.

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.

Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.

I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had.

If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.

Please don't look at the part of the glass that is only half full.

I inherited half my father's friends and all his enemies

We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year.

a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.

I never wanted to see half the things I've seen, and I've never seen half the things I wanted to. I don't think wanting comes into it. You'd best go all the same.

He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

Pleasing ware is half sold.

Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled. [Wood half-burnt is easily kindled.]