A Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.

Jean de la Bruyere

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First Half Lives Making Men Miserable Most Second Spend

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Jean de la Bruyere
French - Philosopher
1645 - 1696

We spend the second half of our life making up for the first half.

Richard Jeni

I always thought that I would spend the first half of my life making money so I can spend the second half of my life giving it all away. And one of the defining moments of my life was when I realized that I could do both at the same time with TOMS.

Blake Mycoskie

I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.

Frances Lear

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Saul Bellow

I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm.

Andrew Carnegie

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

Emile Zola

For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.

Ethan Mordden

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.

Russell Baker

It can be set down as a broad, general principle that we cannot indulge in idleness and abundance during both the first and second half of our life. Study, application, industry, enthusiasm while we are young usually enable us to enjoy life when we grow older. But unless we toil and strive and earn all we can in the first half, the second half of our life is liable to bring disappointment, discomfort, distress. The time to put forth effort is when we are most able to do it, namely, in the years of our greatest strength. The law of compensation hasn't ceased to function.

B. C. Forbes

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Clarence Darrow

My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.

Walter O'Brien

A tree there is that from its topmost bough Is half all glittering flame and half all green Abounding foliage moistened with the dew; And half is half and yet is all the scene; And half and half consume what they renew.

William Butler Yeats

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.

Franz Kline

It can be said that the first half of the marathon is 20 miles long; the second half, 6.2 more.

Hal Higdon

Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives seeking out our other half. A drink is my beloved. Without it, I am wanting; I feel half finished.