They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken. — Ray Floyd
Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing, using four-letter words to shock people. — Red Skelton
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes. — Cole Porter
I love you is eight letters...then again, so is bullshit. — Ville Valo
Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word. — Dorothy Parker
There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.' — Jean-Michel Basquiat
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips. — Charles Dickens
There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less. — William Faulkner
No three words have greater power than I Love You. — Unknown
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. — Gore Vidal
Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little. — Tom Stoppard
Golf's three ugliest words: still your shot. — Dave Marr
I have two interests in life – markets and women. Both are concerned with four letter words – markets with the risk and woman with love. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
Once you take away the struggle for food, clothing and shelter, work is the one four letter word that offends everyone. — Lenny Bruce
You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control your that means everyone can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.
I am sure that no one coming to this ceremony expected a High Court judge to use the occasion to talk about that four-letter word, love. But that's a good thing. In life, never be predictable. It's so uncool. — Michael Kirby
Change is not a four letter word...but often your reaction to it is! — Jeffrey Gitomer
My favorite four-letter words are 'hard work'. — John Wayne
Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out.
Fame is a four-letter word; and like tape or zoom or face or pain or life or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it. — Fred Rogers
The most disgusting four letter word in the English language is 'cage'. — Philip Wollen
Love is a four-letter word, but you don't hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may be a sign of our times that everyone talks openly about sex, but we seem to be embarrassed to talk about love. — Thomas Sowell
Four Letter Quotes
I don't save money. Save is a four letter word! I like to borrow money because I can get richer faster on borrowed money. I have what is called retained earnings, so I don't have to save money. If I need money, I will go out and borrow it. — Robert Kiyosaki
It's hard to find a girl with a heart of gold, when you're living in a four letter world. — Warren Zevon
Any woman who can’t say a four-letter word sometimes is deceitful. — Fanny Brice
This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written. — Anthony Trollope
There’s always a stigma attached to the word ‘ambition’ and women. I’ve embraced it. Ambition is NOT a four-letter word and women have to embrace that. — Tory Burch
It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word. — Tom Cruise
To listen to some people in Politics, you'd think-nice-was a four-letter word. — David Steel
He speaks four letter language because his mind is small. His voice is like venom, I don't like him at all. — Rodney Crowell
People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words. — Tim Conway
Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language. — Ed Markey
Four Word Quotes
There are four principles we need to maintain: First, read the Word of God. Second, consume the Word of God until it consumes you. Third believe the Word of God. Fourth, act on the Word. — Smith Wigglesworth
Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Thou shalt not kill: the four most important, and yet, most ignored words in all religious teachings. There is not an asterisk next to that commandment saying, “Unless you walk on all four and have fur, feathers, horns, beaks or gills. — Gary Yourofsky
There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God - admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world. — William Wilberforce
Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don't be surprised if you can't relate what you see to those four words. — Henry Mintzberg
The four most important words in the English language are, "What do you think?" Listen to your people and learn. — J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.
Fitness in four words: Move yourself and objects. — Michael Easter
In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family. I BELIEVE IN YOU. Those four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try. — Mike Krzyzewski
Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity. — Arabic Proverbs
As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice. — Linda Kaplan Thaler
I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again. — Abraham Pais
I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed. — Pat Morita
You say love is just a four letter word. — Bob Dylan
The four-letter word for psychotherapy is Talk. — Eric Hodgins
The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words. — George Steiner
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. ... Good authors, too, who once knew better words now use only four-letter words writing prose. ... Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow. — Cole Porter
I won't go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me 'E.T.' and 'Chariots of Fire' instead. That's entertainment, not exploitation of the human body. — Ginger Rogers
The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language. — Abbie Hoffman
Love is the most powerful four letter word. — John Wooden
You know you're getting old when a four-letter word for something pleasurable two people can do in bed together is R-E-A-D. — Denis Norden
Ambition is not a four-letter word and women have to embrace that. — Tory Burch
An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen. — Mark Twain
Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K. — J. P. Mcevoy
Work is a four letter word! — Unknown
They call it golf because all the other four letter words were taken. — Raymond Floyd
'Programming' is a four-letter word. — Craig Bruce
ya better come inside
when you're ready to
but no chance if ya don't wanna dance
you like four letter words when you're ready to
but then you won't 'cos you know that you can — Def Leppard
Love is a four letter word. However, you should spend a lifetime writing them. — Daniel Evans
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