Fourths Quotes

21 quotes by 17 authors

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows. — James Bryce
Leadership is about three-fourths show-the-way and about one-fourth follow-up. — James E. Faust
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
A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy. — Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money. — Mark Twain
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
Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern. — Matthew Arnold
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
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. — Gail Godwin
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
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. — Oscar Wilde
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
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
Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling. — Robert A. Heinlein
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
Three-fourths of the universe is hydrogen, and oxygen is incredibly abundant, too. So H2O is something you can find nearly everywhere. — Seth Shostak
Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows. — James Bryce
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: