Source: Literature and Dogma (1873), Ch. 1
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.”
“Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.”
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2
“Inevitably, an individual is measured by his or her largest concerns.”
Human Options (1981)
“Delirium, dream, death—Three-D. What was the fourth?”
Source: Natural History (2003), Chapter 3 “Uluru” (p. 45)
Disme: the Art of Tenths, Or, Decimall Arithmetike (1608)
“We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.”
As attributed in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood, p. 624
“To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.”
“What is it but a map of busy life,
Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?”
Source: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 55.
