...When he was on the eve of departure for one of his great expeditions the coachmaker said to him, "The carriage shall be at the door punctually at six o clock"; "A quarter before," said Nelson. "I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time and it has made a man of me." Horatio Nelson
The modern young man,' said Aunt Dahlia, 'is a congenital idiot and wants a nurse to lead him by the hand and some strong attendant to kick him regularly at intervals of a quarter of an hour. P. G. Wodehouse
This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to work under it out of the rain. Cyrano de Bergerac
I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time. Horatio Nelson
A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A Quarter of an hour is worth more than a thousand gold coins. Chinese Proverb