One Half Quotes

One Half Quote of the day

Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.

The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

One half of me is yours, the other half is yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours.

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women.

It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.

The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.

There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell.

I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.

For me, it's always been the initial business - just getting a word down, any words down, on a blank piece of paper. Once I've done that, I'm away. Beginning is one half of the deed.

The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.

If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.

Because she is my sister, and therefore one half of me.

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control.

One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.

The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad.

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.

One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

For one half second, I wondered what it would feel like to put my hand in the fire. What it would feel like when I burned.

I'm me on the mound. I like to show my emotion, be real aggressive and give everything I've got for one half inning. I don't have to act. What you see on the mound is what I am in real life.

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.

One half was like, I hope this doesn't affect it, and the other half was like, it's great that people know I did a Beyoncé record.

The price must be less than one half of the former high and preferably at or near its all time low.

One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation.

One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

. . . I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half . . .

One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.

No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.

If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've only missed out on one half of life.

This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

We have two lives; The soul of man is like the rolling world, One half in day, the other dipt in night; The one has music and the flying cloud, The other, silence and the wakeful stars.

If you had to chose one half of your son, which one would it be?" What kind of a question is that?!" No need to snap. It was just a question.