Five Letter Sayings

#1. If a four-letter man marries a five-letter woman, he was thinking, what number of letters would their children be?

Ernest Hemingway,

#2. Trust is just another five letter word, one that comes before not,

Ellen Hopkins

#3. When he went to college he wrote me letters which I answered within four days. Each letter took at least five drafts before I thought it suitable to send to Cambridge.

Laurie Colwin

#4. Evolutionary biologist Ryan Gregory put it, anyone who thinks he or she can assign a function to every letter in the human genome should be asked why an onion needs a genome that is about five times larger than a person's. Who's resorting

Matt Ridley

#5. I prefer the paycheck of television and the experience of theater.

Deirdre Lovejoy

#6. I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

Carol Ann Duffy

#7. Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.

Marie De France

#8. To be ignorant is to waste the talents you were born with. To be ignorant is to confine your life to a path no different than the generations before you

Linda Cardillo

#9. The most visible form of Jesus's not-of-this-world kingdom is the radical, head-turning love of one's enemies, even (or especially) when we are suffering at their hands. Peter mentions this cruciform enemy-love no fewer than ten times in five chapters, making it the artery of the letter.

Preston Sprinkle

#10. And L-M-N-O-P is not one letter, but five. It took me forever to figure that out.

Kim Harrison

#11. Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's.

Robert Breault

#12. About four or five weeks after it was publicly announced I was no longer breastfeeding, I got a letter from the NHS saying they were being supportive of me, but basically, they were very disappointed I'd stopped.

Denise Van Outen

#13. War is not cheap, but it's the human cost that's the highest.

Ross Kemp

#14. Unfortunately, when you're the king of the hill, there's really only one way to go, and that's down.

Walton Goggins

#15. In order to know somebody through their words, I mean, it has to be an, it has to be a letter, you know? It has to be a long e-mail. It has to be a five-page hand-written letter, you know, it has to be overwhelming and messy and sloppy as humans are.

Sherman Alexie

#16. His hand had been resting two inches above my shorts. Which is about five inches above my vagina. So... yeah, he was basically touching my vagina.

R.S. Grey

#17. What's love when you're too fucked up to feel it right?
I think it's a weapon.

Hannah Moskowitz

#18. My grandmother was determined that everyone feel a sense of optimism and opportunity.

Chelsea Clinton

#19. There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.

Agnes Repplier

#20. Remember that everything that is happening around you, good or bad, is in some way conspiring to help you.

Debasish Mridha

#21. He's meeting his girl now, a girl not much older than 14. A five-and-ten-cents store Cleopatra, a four letter word.

Kurt Vonnegut