Mark Twain Half Quotations

We have nine children now half boys and half girls.

He would go to Halifax for half a chance to show off and he would go to hell for a whole one

Boy, can't you feel the ghosts of a century and a half of great thinkers, especially Twain?

I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

Brooklyn praise is half slander.

It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.

Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.

An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.