Quotes with half-a-crown

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  • Yogi Berra Ninety percent of this game is half mental.
    Yogi Berra
    American baseball player (1925 - 2015)
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  • Kahlil Gibran No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Robert Half No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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  • William Penn No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Samuel Johnson No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Cowper No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Theresa May Not partial membership of the European Union or anything that leaves us half in, half out. No, the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union.
    British Prime Minister Theresa May Outlines Plan To Leave European Union (2017)
    Theresa May
    British politician (1956 - )
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  • Barry Cornwall Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute, Are half so sweet as tender human words.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • George Meredith Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Arthur Wellesley Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
    Arthur Wellesley
    Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman (1769 - 1852)
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  • Mark Twain Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bess Truman Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.
    Bess Truman
    American first lady (1885 - 1982)
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  • Barbara Walters Now here I was, half Jane Wyman, half Shirley Temple, and people began to stop me in the street and say, 'Don't worry, Barbara, it's all right, you won't lose your job.' It was really very touching.
    Chris Chase, A Talk With the Unsinkable Barbara Walters, New York Magazine (March 25, 1974)
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Robert Browning O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Bob Beauprez Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Charles Sawyer Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.
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  • Arsene Wenger Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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  • Franz Grillparzer Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule.
    Franz Grillparzer
    Austrian play writer (1791 - 1872)
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  • Horace Walpole Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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