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Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.
. . . I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half . . .
No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz.
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.
Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.
Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.
In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)
The lower half of households by wealth held just 3% of wealth in 1989 and only 1% in 2013.
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
It's difficult to be at events with a room full of women who weigh half as much as you do.
All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.
If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.
You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves...
A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.
And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.
An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half.
In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.
A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was
Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.
A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.
I like to work half a day. I don't care if it is the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours.
Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.
The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk.
I joined the Communist Party late in the summer of 1934. I got out a year and a half later.
At 41 and a half weeks pregnant, I started to have second thoughts about becoming a mother.
We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.
You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.
If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.
When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.
Turn that 62 to 125, 125 to 250, 250 to half a million, ain't nothing nobody can do with me.
Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.
Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
Well, I got married about two and a half years ago, and that's been a big change in my life.
There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.
I couldn't stop staring at the cave, back where Dimitri was, back where half of my soul was.
A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.
Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year.
Well, half of half our faction.' 'In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar,' Lynn says.
Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.
Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.
Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.