Top 100 Four Letter Sayings
#1. 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
#2. 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
#5. I guess it was only fitting that to them PUNK was a four letter word. However, to people like Dylan and I-punk was our hearts-our souls. We grew up with a lot of uncertainties. To be a teenager isn't always pretty, and our music reflected that.
Brian Joyce
#7. Hope was supposed to be a good thing, but it was starting to feel like every other four-letter word you're not supposed to say.
Elizabeth Scott
#8. BOOK, a four-letter word for truth serum" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary
"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 161
Rodman Philbrick
#9. You say love is just a four letter word.
Bob Dylan
#10. One result of family failure has been the loss of dignity. No better example can be found than in the use of language. [Language has been reduced to] a four-letter word in movies, on television, in comedy routines, and in real life.
Billy Graham
#11. She knew all sorts of four letter words now; they just weren't the ones that most people considered foul language.
Love.
Help.
Rape.
Stop.
Then.
Jodi Picoult
#12. The most disgusting four letter word in the English language is 'cage'.
Philip Wollen
#13. The walls are covered -crammed- with writing. No. Not writing. They are covered with a single four-letter word that has been inscribed over and over, on every available surface.
Love.
Lauren Oliver
#15. The four-letter word for psychotherapy is Talk.
Eric Hodgins
#16. I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.
Candace Pert
#18. The lesser of the evils now before us is to abandon all moral censorship. We have either sunk beneath or risen above it. If we do, there will be reams of filth. But we need not read it. Nor, probably, will the fashion last for ever. Four-letter words may soon be as dated as antimacassars.
C.S. Lewis
#19. Any woman who can't say a four-letter word sometimes is deceitful.
Fanny Brice
#20. Fate! This four-letter little word gave the biggest harm to mankind! We must totally get rid of this degrading concept of primitiveness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#21. It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.
Tom Cruise
#22. Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
Ed Markey
#23. Love is many things. It's every raw human emotion rolled up into one messy four letter word. There's no rule book and definitely no guarantees.
J.L. Berg
#25. 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!
Dionne Warwick
#26. Once you take away the struggle for food, clothing and shelter, work is the one four letter word that offends everyone.
Lenny Bruce
#28. It's a four-letter word for a part of the human anatomy but it's not m-i-n-d.
Joseph Hansen
#29. People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.
Tim Conway
#30. 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.
Frederick Lenz
#32. Now she said, "I'm up to the four-letter words." And I said, "You mean the dirty ones, like shit?" And she laughed and said, "Worse ones than that." And I said, "You mean the c-word and the f-word?" and she said, "No. Like love.
Margaret Atwood
#33. In Charleston, temperance is a four letter word.
Mark R. Jones
#34. My mother won't tolerate any four-letter words.
Dixie Carter
#35. 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
#37. LIFE is four letters so is FCUK, LOVE is four letter so is PAIN.
Santosh Kalwar
#38. Real' is a four-letter word, and I'll thank you to use it as little as possible while you live under my roof.
Seanan McGuire
#40. Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose ... anything goes.
Cole Porter
#41. 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
#42. Fame is a four-letter word. And like tape, or zoom, or face, or pain, or love, or life, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.
Fred Rogers
#43. My favorite four-letter words are 'hard work'.
John Wayne
#44. Only one word described this situation. It was "F'd." Right? But I can't say that word. People who use that word in all its four-letter glory are nothing but common beggars.
Susan May
#46. To listen to some people in Politics, you'd think-nice-was a four-letter word.
David Steel
#47. Why use a 10 letter word you can barely pronounce ... when a four letter one will do.
Timothy Pina
#48. He speaks four letter language because his mind is small. His voice is like venom, I don't like him at all.
Rodney Crowell
#49. We have a lot of kids who don't know what works means. They think work is a four-letter word.
Hillary Clinton
#50. If a four-letter man marries a five-letter woman, he was thinking, what number of letters would their children be?
Ernest Hemingway,
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. Trap is a four-letter word, and like so many four-letter words it can mean something entirely else.
--Hugo Anstead
Jennifer A. Girardin
#54. The thing with that word "establishment" is a four-letter word in the 2016 politics, so toxic, so pejorative that pretty much no one wants to be associated with it.
Chris Hayes
#55. Change is not a four letter word ... but often your reaction to it is!
Jeffrey Gitomer
#56. 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
#57. Did that hurt? On your lip?"
"Not too much. I said a few choice four-letter words, though.
Tammara Webber
#58. To far too many, science is a four-letter word, and under the modern media's false equivalency standards, a handful of skeptics are viewed as counterweights to the vast majority of scientists who acknowledge mankind's proven role in global warming.
Christine Pelosi
#59. 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
#60. Love is a four letter word if you speak it or write it down, but it becomes powerful once you feel it and live in it.
The Prolific Penman
#61. If love was magic you wouldn't be amazed, you much rather look at reality in a daze. see love is merely a four letter phrase, It's here It's there it may never change. For love is a verb an action, a zing, It is never a person place or thing.
Aja Taylor
#62. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.
W.C. Fields
#63. To make money you have to use a four letter word: SELL.
Richie Norton
#65. It's hard to find a girl with a heart of gold, when you're living in a four letter world.
Warren Zevon
#66. I'll supervise, shall I?" offered Cogsworth. "To me, 'dust' is a four-letter word."
"'Dust' is a four-letter word to everyone," said Lumiere.
"'Work' is also a four-letter word," said Plumette, under her breath. "Perhaps that is why monsieur strives to avoid it
Jennifer Donnelly
#67. There are four-letter words you should never use in business. They're not fuck or shit. They're need, must, can't, easy, just, only and fast. These words gets in the way of healthy communication
Jason Fried
#69. 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
#70. You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.
Pablo Picasso
#71. Love is the most powerful four letter word.
John Wooden
#73. I can't say what my first thought was as I sunk below the surface, because it was mostly a string of four-letter words.
Rachel Hawkins
#74. I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word.
Patrick Stump
#75. They call it golf because all the other four letter words were taken.
Raymond Floyd
#77. 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
#78. I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.
Pat Morita
#79. Love and lust are both four letter words that start with L, but they don't appear in the dictionary side by side so we shouldn't have to think they go hand in hand in life.
LaToya Hankins
#80. I can see that an insufficent, or perhaps even defective, socialization process has led you to believe that four-letter words add power to languauge
Douglas Preston
#81. If I was dealing with a trader, every other word had to be a four-letter word.
Muriel Siebert
#82. Four-letter words have always offended me. I cringe at hearing them. Can't, don't, and won't are the worst.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#83. There are only two four letter words that are offense to men. The words don't and stop. Well, unless they are used together.
Christine Zolendz
#84. Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.
Matt Ridley
#85. Risk is a four-letter word, but you know something? So is safe.
Chiara Kelly
#86. Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
Dick Cavett
#88. Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.
Alberto Manguel
#89. Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
Dorothy Parker
#90. 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
#91. Tax is not a four-letter word; rather, it's the price we pay for the country we want.
Alex Himelfarb
#92. Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.
J. P. McEvoy
#93. Debt is a four letter word and means a four word sentence - Be Prepared for Trouble.
Lucas Remmerswaal
#94. I feel like a weed in the midst of Winter. 'Tis the sunshine of your smile that will bring back the Spring of my days. We arrive in four days. I hope you will grace me again with your presence. Yours, Morgan (Morgan's letter)
Kinley MacGregor
#95. I spent four minutes yesterday looking for the halfway point between where I am & where I want to be. I found the city - you just have to tell me if you want pizza, coffee or strange street meat. Just four minutes searching, but all day (really all week), I've been thinking of this letter & you.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. Everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.
Brenda Ueland
#99. 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
#100. I folded the letter and carefully placed it back in its spot. Now I had to wait twenty-four hours for a response. This was so much less gratifying than texting.
Kasie West
