“Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.”

“Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies. ”

“The opening bombardment took out at least three-quarters of them. Only three-quarters.”

“Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?”

“Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.”

“People go to Vegas, and they don't know what to do; here's what you do. You go to the casino in your hotel. On your arrival, you get $100 in quarters. Take that $100 back to your hotel room and stare at it for a long, long time. Why? Because you're never going to see them again. Then you take those quarters to the bathroom and you flush them, one by one by one. And the nice thing about that is that every so often the toilet will back up, and you'll feel like a WINNER!”

“People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole.”

“If people thought a quarter of what they speak, this world would be heaven.”

“The clock moved a quarter of a turn,the time it took a cigarette to burn<BR”

“Last quarter moon, can you tell me dear.”