"The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four."
Read quote
3 likes
Four quotes
Four
1.2K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Four
Browse quotes that often appear alongside four — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Four quotes (page 10 of 61)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Every four minutes, another American home or business goes solar."
Read quote
3 likes
"When it comes to crime, the violent crime rate in America has been lowered during my presidency and any time in the last three, four decades."
Read quote
3 likes
"I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it."
Read quote
3 likes
"You're not a rock 'n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life."
Read quote
3 likes
"This isn't a hunt that's going to kill just four or five gray whales. The repercussions of this will have an effect on tens of thousands of whales that will be killed by the Japanese and Norwegians."
Read quote
3 likes
"Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill, the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows, when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work."
Read quote
3 likes
"I keep a pretty tight grip on my schedule and I compare it a lot to a fireman's - a four-on then four-off type of deal."
Read quote
3 likes
"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."
Read quote
3 likes
"It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski. Six years later, we had a grand slam: We elected four new Democratic women to the Senate. Sen. Mikulski now has some company."
Read quote
3 likes
"I was able to get operated on four days after I was diagnosed. It was just a matter of getting this baseball-sized tumor out of me. I reflect now on how lucky I was to be in the situation where I could get the best possible help and treatment."
Read quote
3 likes
"Remarkable only the very best arrangers can get a sound like that from four horns"
Read quote
3 likes
"The average permanent lasts about four months."
Read quote
3 likes
"I'm only a four-dimensional creature. Haven't got a clue how to visualise infinity. Even Einstein hadn't. I know because I asked him"
Read quote
3 likes
"I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds."
Read quote
3 likes
"I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was."
Read quote
3 likes
"Whatever sentence is passed on the Gang of Four won't be excessive. They brought harm to millions upon millions of people."
Read quote
3 likes
"Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death."
Read quote
3 likes
"So here are some foolproof recipes for those of you who understand the true function of food. Bean Treat: Gingerly pour four fluid oz of beans or something into a jug. Cry. Eat the beans from the jug and pour the rest from the can down your throat. N.B. These taste better if they belong to somebody else in your house. Pain au Dunk: Fists of bread, rent from the loaf and dunked into anything runnier than bread. Should eat at least six of these because…you should. Don’t toast the bread. Toast is cookery."
Read quote
3 likes
"[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we're not going to talk about that."
Read quote
3 likes