Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 33
“Don't be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life.”
1970s
Source: Douglas C. McGill, ART PEOPLE http://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/03/arts/art-people.html, New York Times, October 3, 1986
Daily Telegram #1172, Will Rogers Sees No Value In All The Time We Save (28 April 1930)
Daily telegrams
“One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.”
La moitié de ma vie a mis l’autre au tombeau.
Chimène, act III, scene iii.
Le Cid (1636)
“911. Life is halfe spent before we know what it is.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
An American and France (1936)
“But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we,
Half dust, half deity, alike unfit
To sink or soar.”
Act I, scene ii.
Manfred (1817)
“A life lived in fear… is a life half-lived.”
Source: Strictly Ballroom
“The half life of love is forever.”
Variant: The half-life of love is forever.
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
