Best whole & half Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Lawrence of Arabia: The Man Behind the Myth (Complete Autobiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters): Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Memoirs of the Arab Revolt) + The Evolution of a Revolt + The Mint (Memoirs of the secret service in Royal Air Force) + Collected Letters (1915-1935)

“He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.”

Giving Whole Wish Loses Half Borrowing

Book:The Epigrams of Martial

Source: The Epigrams of Martial

“I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.”

Men Self Whole Suffering Half Ill Violation

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.”

Stills Whole Half Democracy Poet Bears Democrat

Book:Aurora Leigh

Source: Aurora Leigh

“A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.”

Ifs Men Way Mind Littles Whole Purpose Given Half Attitude Achieve He Man Ships Muscles Purpose Of Life Backwards Worthiness Strength Of Mind Volition Rudders

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“It's love,' they say. You touch the right one and a whole half of the universe wakes up, a new half.”

Whole Universe Half Wake Up

Book:Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford

Source: Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford

“Giving a reader a sex scene that is only half right is like giving her half a kitten. It is not half as cute as a whole kitten; it is a bloody, godawful mess. A half-good sex scene is not half as hot; it actually moves into the negative numbers, draining any heat from the surrounding material.”

Giving Whole Moving Sex Numbers Half Materials Reader Scene Negative Hot Mess Cute Heat Bloody Kitten Draining Good Sex

Author:Sandra Newman

“It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar contribution. Grace does the whole work, and so does free choice - with this one qualification: That whereas the whole is done in free choice, so is the whole done of grace.”

Ifs Doe Done Whole Choices Half Grace Contribution Peculiar Qualifications One Half Free Choice

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

“The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United States will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that "A state half slave and half free cannot exist." All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true.”

Years War States Whole Causes United Views Half Cases United States Politician Slavery Slave Conclusion Rebellion Great War

Book:The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.

Source: The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.

“I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.”

Mean Two Whole Half Doubt Impossible Equal Mathematics Math Proof Lawyer Mathematical Programming Mathematician Mathematical Proof

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.”

Whole Reality Evil Half Recognition Paradoxical Converting

Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.”

Knows Whole Half Know How Fool

Author:Hesiod

“In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.”

Whole Half Failure Losing

Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.”

Hard Whole Mistake Half Quarters Portions Troublesome

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“How incredibly avaricious the whole operation was, the way they made the Jews pay for their tickets in the railway cars to the death camps. Yeah, and the rates for a third-class ticket, one way. And half price for children.... It was a kind of exploration of evil. Just how bad can we get?”

Way Kind Children Made Whole Evil Pay Half Class Car Thirds Yeah Rate Jew One Way Operations Exploration Camps Holocaust Tickets Railway Death Camps

Author:Martin Amis

“The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife.”

Men Writing Stills Whole Left Half Morning Four Wife Land Fields Promise Whole Life Clock Dozen Pigs New Day Wisest Fertility Pastures Wisest Man Pallets

Author:Jose Saramago

“A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.”

Doe Whole Lying Half Mischief Half Truth

Author:Ivan Panin

“One-half plus one-half does not equal one; one whole plus one whole equals relational wholeness.”

Doe Whole Half Equal Unity Plus Wholeness One Half

Author:Surya Das

“An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done, than many another in a great work. A man may often draw something with his pen on a half sheet of paper in one day . . . . and it shall be fuller of art and better than another's great work whereon he hath spent a whole year's careful labor.”

Men Years May Art Done Whole Shows Artist Understanding Half One Day Paper Draws Labor Careful Pens Sheets Small Things Great Work Great Power Whole Year

Author:Albrecht Durer

“You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads.”

Men Whole Able Film Half Understood Hollywood Granted Contempt Dozen Flash Reserves Equations

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Of all the differences between the Old World and the New, this is perhaps the most salient. Half the wars of Europe, half the internal troubles that have vexed European States... have arisen from theological differences or from the rival claims of Church and State. This whole vast chapter of debate and strife has remained virtually unopened in the United States. There is no Established Church. All religious bodies are equal before the law, and unrecognized by the law, except as voluntary associations of private citizens.”

“Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole.”

Two Whole Half

Author:Jason Mraz

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