Fourths Quotes
21 quotes by 17 authors
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Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.
— James Bryce
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Leadership is about three-fourths show-the-way and about one-fourth follow-up.
— James E. Faust
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A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that's not right,…
— Eddie Van Halen
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A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question.…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The larger question for the Northwest, where the cities are barely a hundred years old but contain three-fourths of the population, is whether the wild…
— Timothy Egan
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In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.
— Mark Twain
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Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.
— Dale Carnegie
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
— Matthew Arnold
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To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the…
— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
— Gail Godwin
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Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for…
— Gilbert Parker
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To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
— Oscar Wilde
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Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.
— Gary Snyder
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Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the…
— Mark Twain
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Three-fourths of the universe is hydrogen, and oxygen is incredibly abundant, too. So H2O is something you can find nearly everywhere.
— Seth Shostak
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Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.
— James Bryce
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You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.
— David Garrick
Who Wrote These Fourths Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 21 Fourths Quotes as follows: