better a bare foot than none
better a lean jade than an empty halter
better are small fish than an empty dish , also: better a small fish than an empty dish
half a loaf is better than none

Under these circumstances, half a loaf is better than none.

The rule of governing used to be, "Half a loaf is better than none."

Well, if half a loaf is better than none, maybe they haven't realized that this way one of us stays home.

With respect to most negotiators and most issues, half a loaf is better than none.

It could be said in its favour that "half a loaf is better than none' .

"I suppose half a loaf is better than none," she whispers through a cupped hand in my ear.

This was grudgingly accepted by the tribe on the grounds that "half a loaf is better than none".

This legitimises the 'half a loaf is better than none' approach which leaves the population in hunger and misery.

That is the key to compromise: Both sides decide that half a loaf is better than none.

'Half a loaf is better than none' we say, with the implication that later down the track additional reforms can be revisited.

("Down on the Purd'nalis we always say half a loaf is better than none.")

The 71 percent who voted "yes" in the referendum on Friday decided, as they say in Ireland, that half a loaf is better than none.

Democracy is a process of compromise, so branded indelibly into our political psyche should be the maxim that half a loaf is better than none.

Working on the principle that half a loaf is better than none, the British side accepted the agreement, intending to open negotiations separately on military issues.

Representative Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, said he supported the bill because "half a loaf is better than none."

"He knows how to put together coalitions," Mr. Sibley said, before adding: "I don't think he's one that says half a loaf is better than none.

But they had beamed to the Guardian planet together, and returned with the look of dubious satisfaction of men concluding that half a loaf is better than none.

But I was willing to take that chance, as half a loaf is better than none, and my 401(k) is now about half the loaf it once was.

In the House of Commons debates, Tommy Douglas, leader of the NDP, says, " Half a loaf is better than none....I believe that someday we will have the techniques to register all guns."

It could be said in its favour that "half a loaf is better than none' . However, it would have been better to have been more ambitious in this case, not just clarifying things but extending the scope, to include for example the financial obligation between marriage partners, and between them and their children.