Half a truth is better than no politics.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.
Brett Favre

Initially, I know that I handled it worse than she did and I think partly because I've always been... every bit of adversity I've faced up until the last year and a half is adversity I brought upon myself - or the opposing teams have given me.
Brett Favre

Courage in danger is half the battle.
Plautus

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
Plautus

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
Jimmy Buffett

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

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
John Updike

The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently.
Jose Mourinho

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
Gaston Bachelard

I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.
Morgan Freeman

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

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
Agatha Christie

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