A Quote by Russell Baker

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

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Russell Baker
American - Journalist
Born: August 14, 1925

I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.

Alex Toth

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

Pablo Picasso

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

A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.

Ann Landers

I’ve spent the first half of my life studying and footnoting everything that can go wrong with the female body—and figuring out how to fix it. I’m dedicating the second half of my life to illuminating everything that can go right with the female body, including teaching women how to truly flourish.

Christiane Northrup

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

Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now.

Raymond Smullyan

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

Richard Jeni

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

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

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

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.