“Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“Half myself mocks the other half.”
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French moralist and essayist 1754–1824Related quotes
“901. Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
This is printed in some editions as: Half the world knows not how the other half lives.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.”
Pierre Corneille book Le Cid
La moitié de ma vie a mis l’autre au tombeau.
Chimène, act III, scene iii.
Le Cid (1636)
“I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.”
Jay Gould (1836–1892) American businessman
Frequently attributed, often in the context of strikebreaking activities during the Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886. See for example Philip Sheldon Foner, History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Volume 2 - Page 50 (1975). A contemporary source has not been identified. Varying forms of the quotation circulated in the labor press as early as 1893, with or without the attribution to Gould.
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Charles Baudelaire Le Peintre de la vie moderne
La modernité, c’est le transitoire, le fugitif, le contingent, la moitié de l’art, dont l’autre moitié est l’éternel et l’immuable. <br class="br">IV: "La modernite" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Modernit%C3%A9 <br class="br">Le peintre de la vie moderne (1863)
Miguel Ángel Ruiz (1952) Mexican writer and philosopher
Source: The Mastery of Love (1999), Ch.4 - p.66
