Quarter Periods

Famous quotes containing the words quarter and/or periods:

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

“Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to turn even to the description of work, the simple record of the month’s labor in the farmer’s almanac, to restore our tone and spirits.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)