"It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half."
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"I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first."
"Half of science is putting forth the right questions."
"Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished."
"Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves."
"A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step."
"I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live."
"Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape."
"I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true."
"All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell."
"It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies."
"Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it."
"If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way."
"To pray well is the better half of study."
"There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves."
"Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not."
"…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone."
"Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour."
"It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior."
"The beginning is half of the whole."