Quarter

Famous quotes containing the word quarter:

    “A quarter of an hour is worth a thousand pieces of gold.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Like the water, the Walden ice, seen near at hand, has a green tint, but at a distance is beautifully blue, and you can easily tell it from the white ice of the river, or the merely greenish ice of some ponds, a quarter of a mile off.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “In the haunted house no quarter is given: in that respect
    It’s very much business as usual. The reductive principle
    Is no longer there, or isn’t enforced as much as before.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)