Top 1200 Four-Letter Quotes & Sayings

You know you're getting old when a four-letter word for something pleasurable to do in bed is r-e-a-d.

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

Survival is a four letter word.

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

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

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.

Any woman who can’t say a four-letter word sometimes is deceitful.

Work is a four-letter word.

The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.

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

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

Life is a four-letter word.

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

As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.

You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by letter... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly "illiterate," undeducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, - that is to say, with real accuracy- you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.

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

To listen to some people in Politics, you'd think-nice-was a four-letter word.

We have a lot of kids who don't know what works means. They think work is a four-letter word.

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.

The four-letter word for psychotherapy is Talk.

Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.

If I was dealing with a trader, every other word had to be a four-letter word.

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.

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.

It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana.

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.

Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.

Ambition is not a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.

Just another four-letter word.

Fate! This four letter little word gave the biggest harm to mankind! We must totally get rid of this degrading concept of primitiveness!

Love is the most powerful four letter word.

Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I am writing you this letter, or what this letter is supposed to be about, but I am writing it nonetheless, because I love you very much and trust that you have some good purpose for having me write this letter. I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love. Your father

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

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

Change is not a four letter word...but often your reaction to it is!

You called me at four thirty-four....I hate four thirty-four. I think four thirty-four should be banned and replaced with something more reasonable, like, say, nine twelve.

The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.

It's hard to find a girl with a heart of gold, when you're living in a four letter world.

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.

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

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.

A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as well suited to affectations as to the affections. The letter is, by its natural shape, self-justifying; it is one's own evidence, deposition, a self-serving testimony. In a letter the writer holds all the cards, controls everything about himself and about those assertions he wishes to make concerning events or the worth of others. For completely self-centered characters, the letter form is a complex and rewarding activity.

All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!

My favorite six letter word is always because it promises so much. My favorite five letter word is never because it insists on contradicting the promise. My favorite four letter word is once because it says it happened then. My favorite three letter word is yes because I’m just now learning to say it to my heart. My favorite two letter word is if because it makes all things possible like this: If not always If not never Then once. Yes.

Think about these things and see if they make sense to you. You will find that work will no longer be a four-letter word. It will be a three-letter word: fun.

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.

The most disgusting four letter word in the English language is 'cage'.

I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.

The headline of an advertisement accounts for 60% of the pull of that ad. In the same way, the start of a letter makes or breaks the letter, because if the start does not interest your reader, he never gets down to the rest of your letter.

Fear is only a four letter word.

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.

Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.

I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word.

Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.

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

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.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

Once you take away the struggle for food, clothing and shelter, work is the one four letter word that offends everyone.

You say love is just a four letter word.

It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.