“911. Life is halfe spent before we know what it is.”

“Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.”

“Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy, looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find.”

“… like us? Counting up the minutes -- have we spent half an hour together?”

“I used to say that I spent half my life breaking bones on the rugby field, then the other half putting them back together in the operating theatre.”

“We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.”

“Half a lifetime is spent with the unspoken question: Will it happen will it not?”

“I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.”

“Memento mori—remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die—what makes this any different from a half hour?”

“I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.”