
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.”
Source: Natural History (2003), Chapter 3 “Uluru” (p. 45)
“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
“Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.”
Source: Literature and Dogma (1873), Ch. 1
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.”