#half

Well begun is half done. ↗

— Aristotle

#done #half #well

In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now. ↗

— Roone Arledge

#about #aim #am #certain #cosmetic

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds. ↗

— Mary Astell

#half #minds #much #own #reflection

If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too. ↗

— Chet Atkins

#halfway #hear #like #public #something

Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#boat #clothes #crew #crew members #four

I don't much enjoy Back and Forth. I mean, I think it has its own particular qualities, but I think it's inferior to any of the half-hour ones we did. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#back #did #enjoy #forth #half-hour

Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#came #comedy #crowd #doing #half

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#behalf #crime #demand #direct #forgiveness

If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#half #probably #supposed #today #tomorrow

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. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#almost #daily #devote #effect #exertion