A Quote by Dixie Carter

My mother won't tolerate any four-letter words.

Dixie Carter

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Any Four Four-Letter Letter Mother Tolerate Words

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Dixie Carter
American - Actor
May 25, 1939 - April 10, 2010

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

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

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

Cole Porter

My favorite four-letter words are 'hard work'.

John Wayne

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

Pat Morita

Less fear; more hope: just four little four-letter words, but when they are vividly felt as emotion, they are behavior changing, life changing, world-changing.

Louis Tice

Bette Midler can say four-letter words and make you love it.

Liberace

They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.

Ray Floyd

They call it golf because all the other four letter words were taken.

Raymond Floyd

I have been known to have four-letter words fly out of my mouth when I'm upset.

Kyle Richards

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Senator John Kerry, who is running for president, said that when he voted for the war in Iraq, he didn't expect President Bush to 'f--- it up as badly as he did.' Here's some breaking news, tomorrow former Vice President Al Gore expected to endorse Howard Dean as the Democratic nominee for president of the United States - and you thought John Kerry was using four letter words before! Actually, to John Kerry, Dean is a four letter word.

Jay Leno

People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.

Tim Conway

If written in the three-letter words of the four-letter alphabet,a human being is determined by a genetic narrative long enough to fill the equivalent of 500 Bibles.In the meantime human beings have discovered this for themselves. That's right. They have uncovered our profoundest concept -- namely, that life is ultimately reading. They themselves are the Book of Books.

Harry Mulisch

Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't do it. Four sentences to a paragraph. Four letters to a word. The most important words in the English language all have four letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. . .I know peace has five letters, but any damn fool knows it should have four.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Did that hurt? On your lip?" "Not too much. I said a few choice four-letter words, though.

Tammara Webber

If something comes along that you don't like, there are a few sort of four-letter words that you can use to push it out of the sphere of discussion. If you were in a bar downtown, they might have different words, but if you're an educated person what you use are complicated words like "conspiracy theory" or "Marxist." It's a way of pushing unpleasant questions off the agenda so that we can continue in our own happy ideology.

Noam Chomsky

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