“Delirium, dream, death—Three-D. What was the fourth?”

“Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.”

“Balls, the lot of it. It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.”

“Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.”

“The seventh Definition. The Golden Rule, or Rule of three, is that by which to three tearmes given, the fourth proportionall tearme is found.”

“We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.”

“To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.”

“Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.”

“To die, to sleep -
To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,
For in this sleep of death what dreams may come…”

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