A Quote by Horace

To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.

Horace

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Begun Bold Half Job Sensible

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Horace
Roman - Poet
65 BC - 8 BC

There is an old saying "well begun is half done"-'tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all 'til half done.

John Keats

To me, the costume does half the job for you, or even more than half of the job.

Phoebe Dynevor

This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.

Walter Murch

You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.

Hermann Hesse

Half is not enough protection, half is my fault and half is them just doing a good job. I know it's 150 percent, but I'm a little tired now.

Marc Bulger

Being an MP is quite a strange job, because you do it in two different places. Half the time I'm in Westminster and the other half I'm in my constituency and the job is different in both of them.

Jo Swinson

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What's well begun is half done.

Horace

Well begun is half done.

Aristotle

A well begun is half ended.

A. C. Benson

A work well begun is half-ended.

Plato

A bold onset is half the battle.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Time flies so fast after youth is past that we cannot accomplish one half the many things we have in mind or indeed one half our duties. The only safe and sensible plan is to make other things give way to the essentials, and the first of these is fly fishing.