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“If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.”
Will Rogers
“Shared sorrow is half sorrow”
Danish Proverb
“All that I love loses half its pleasure if you are not there to share it”
Clara Ortega
“The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy”
Persian Proverb
“In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it”
Charles Caleb Colton
“When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.”
Chi Chi Rodriguez
“The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency-half tiger, half poet.”
Yehudi Menuhin
“Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity”
Edmund Burke
“HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.”
Ambrose Bierce
“I went on the South Beach Diet for it. I trained for six days a week, two-and-a-half hours a day. I was determined to look good in those shorts.”
Jessica Simpson
