“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?”

“This drawing is three quarters ball, one quarter philosopher, which might be about the right space to keep a philosopher in his place.”

“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”

“And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!”

“But I make a profit of three and a quarter cents an egg by selling them for four and a quarter cents an egg to the people in Malta I buy them from for seven cents an egg. Of course, I don't make the profit. The syndicate makes the profit. And everybody has a share.”

“It just showed once again that half the world doesn’t know how the other three quarters live.”

“The intellectual life of turn-of-the-century Vienna is in my blood: my heart beats in three-quarter time.”

“Whene’er a man is quartered at a friend’s, if he but stay three days, his company they will grow weary of. (translator Thornton)”
Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium divorti potest, quin, ubi triduum continuum fuerit, jam odiosis siet.

“I was charging fifty rupees for arguing for fifteen minutes while a labourer was getting only three-quarters of a Rupee for twelve hours of toil. That was what was eating into me.”