Quotes About Half A Loaf

#1. At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?

Merle Haggard

#2. Half a loaf is better than no bread

Thomas Jefferson

#3. They say half a loaf is better than none, Jimmy, but in a world of want, even a single slice is better than none.

Stephen King

#4. People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry. George Reedy

Robert A. Caro

#5. Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner.

Eric Berne

#6. Half a loaf being better than none, I

Patrick Rothfuss

#7. Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#8. We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

C.S. Lewis

#9. Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#10. After a while I got hungry and went to the kitchen. There was nothing to eat. I drank another beer and looked again, and found half a loaf of whole wheat bread behind the beer in the back of the refrigerator ...

Robert B. Parker

#11. I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread. The other system has been tried and found wanting

Swami Vivekananda

#12. Half a loaf is better than none.

John Heywood

#13. Better is half a loaf than no bread.

John Heywood

#14. The baby's body lay in a bassinet. He was the size of a half loaf of bread, his bones light as a bird's and stretched with thin skin.

Jodi Picoult

#15. Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient.

Gore Vidal

#16. I am thinking particularly of a shower I took where the lower half of my body was under the running water and the upper half was laid out on the bath mat, eating a loaf of bread.

Lena Dunham

#17. The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and the half-loaf, the grain of a petal, the rain-bow and the rain.

Hilda Doolittle