Half quotes
2.2K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Browse quotes that often appear alongside half — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth."
"Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught."
"Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?"
"A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being."
"Half of today is better than all of tomorrow."
"Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?"
"Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day."
"The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent."
"Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided - not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing."
"I never said half the crap people said I did."
"I see the glass half full...but of poison."
"Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property."
"There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance."
"In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me."
"Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits."
"Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death."
"The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee."
"If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over."
"Whatever your craft is, be a master of it. Being half assed at something, people will eventually see through."
"I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work - and about half the students got really pissed off."
