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better half
«Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.»
Author: Charlotte Whitton
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
as well, better half, difficult, half, luckily, This Is, twice, whatever
«I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions»
Author: Dorothy Day
(Founder, Journalist)
| About:
Judgement
| Keywords:
Actions, better half, disregard, disregarded, disregarding, disregards, judge, long since, their talk
«I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.»
«Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter of the rights of little nations (like little Belgium), as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.»
Author: Wyndham Lewis
(Artist)
| Keywords:
Belgium, better half, chivalrous, Citizen of, evolved, Highly Evolved, respecter, self-determination, The Claim
«Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
better half, creatures, decreed, decreeing, flock, good and, mankind, miserable, mud, One half, persecutor, pile, piles, pile up, piling, pronounce, pronouncing, surface, surfaced, surfaces, surface of, The Pile, thrown
«Better know nothing than half-know many things»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
best-known, better half, half, know nothing
«What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
better half, by the hour, half, halves, hour, immortality, person, use, well, would-be, would