A Quote by Richard Jeni

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

Richard Jeni

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First Half Life Making Making Up Our Second Spend Up

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Richard Jeni
American - Comedian
April 14, 1957 - March 10, 2007

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

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

Jean de la Bruyere

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

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

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

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

I do one sit up a day. I get up in the morning, that's the first half. I lay down at night, that's the second half.

Mark Lowry

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Carl Jung

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

Clarence Darrow

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

Mark Twain

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half

Socrates

You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.

Isabel Allende

And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives, Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake, How if our waking life, like that of sleep, Be all a dream in that eternal life To which we wake not till we sleep in death

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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