Famous quotes containing the words quarter and/or mare:
“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)
“Damn me, what a misery it is to have daughters when a man has a good mare and dogs.”
—John Osborne (1929–1994)