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Half the world is made up from idiots and the other half from people smart enough to take indecent advantage of them.

Quote by Walter Francis Kerr about stupidity, intelligence, world, people

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Quote by Robert Frost about world, nothing, people

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about bad, interest, world, people

My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.

Quote by Sebastian Bach

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Quote by Francis Bacon

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about work

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.

Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about habits, nothing, man, life

I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about recollection, wish, things, life

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

Quote by Emily Jane Bronte about work, chance, people, day

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

Quote by P. L. Travers about books, writers

The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.

Quote by Charles Babbage

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about love, word, contentment

I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine and a half months.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about old, olderness, moment

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Quote by Francis Bacon about prudence, question, wisdom

Dick Smith is the best makeup man in the world. I'd get to the studio by 4:30. We'd work on the makeup for four and a half hours.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about work, world, man

I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

Quote by Kathy Acker about students, body

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

Quote by Douglas Adams about life

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

Quote by Oksana Baiul about dance

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

Quote by Sfanta Tereza De Avila about fear, devil

Well begun is half done.

Quote by Aristotel about good