I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings10:7.

The advantage of time and place in practical actions is half the victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.

-Drake, Sir Francis
  Letter to Elizabeth I,13  Apr.

The first blow is half the battle.

-Goldsmith, Oliver
  She Stoops to Conquer, act 2, sc.1.

: Come, indeed, la, you are such a fool, still! : No, but half a one,Win; you are thet'other half: man and wife make one fool,Win.

-Jonson, Ben
WIN LITTLEWITLITTLEWIT1614  Bartholomew Fair, act1, sc.1.

Best image of myself and dearer half.

-Milton,John
   Adam to Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.5, l.95.

I have not told even thehalf of thethings that I have seen.

-Polo, Marco
c.1320  On being accused of exaggeration in his accounts of China. Quoted in R H Poole and P Finch (eds) Newnes Pictorial Knowledge (1950), vol.2.

He that loves but half of Earth Loves but half enough for me.

-Quiller-Couch, SirArthurThomas known as  'Q'
  'The Comrade'.

Half of them don't know what's going to happen tomorrow and the other half don't know they don't know.

-Quinn,Jane Bryant
  Of stock market players. On CNN TV, 4 Apr.

That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where you are.

-Salinger,J(erome) D(avid)
The Catcher in the Rye, ch.10.

The ae half of the warld thinks the tither daft.

-Scott, Sir Walter
  Peter Peebles to Justice Foxley. Redgauntlet, ch.7.

This rortie wretched city Sair come down frae its auld hiechts öThe hauf o't smug, complacent, Lost til all pride of race or spirit, The tither wild and rouch as ever In its secret hairt But lost alsweill, the smeddum tane, The man o'independent mind has cap in hand the day öSits on its craggy spine And drees the wind and rain That nourished all its genius öWeary wi centuries This empty capital snorts like a great beast Caged in its sleep, dreaming of freedom.

-Smith, Sydney Goodsir
  Of Edinburgh.'Kynd Kittock's Land' (Kynd Kittock is a character in the poetry of the16c Scottish poetWilliam Dunbar.) rortie=splendid, smeddum=spirit, drees=endures.

Ithink for my part one half of the nation ismadöand the other not very sound.

-Smollett,Tobias George
  TheAdventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, ch.6.

   Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

-Southey, Robert
  The Doctor, ch.130.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half the people are right more than half the time.

-White, E(lwyn) B(rooks)
  In the NewYorker, 3 Jul.

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half so good†luckily, it's not difficult.

-Whitton, Charlotte
  In Canada Month, Jun.

People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms.

-Wilson, SirAngus FrankJohnstone
  Interview in Iowa Review, no.3, Fall.