Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Plato

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

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

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
Jane Austen

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
William Blake

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
Marcus Aurelius

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
T. S. Eliot

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
John Locke

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.
Dennis Miller

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.
Richard Dawkins

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
Horace Walpole

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Charles Spurgeon

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
Bette Davis