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"Maximum sentence length: seventeen words. Minimum:one No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. Besides, they are ugly. Make sure each sentence is at least four words longer or shorter than the one before it."
"Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words."
"I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is."
"Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially."
"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."
"I got the letter about becoming a Sir in 2000, the same year that Pauline asked me if we could finally get married. My assistant, Colette, called up and it turned out both the wedding and the Buck House ceremony were happening on the same day. I was knighted at 11 and married at four. She became an instant Lady."
"Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble."
"There is the sheer amount of Franklin's wisdom. And the talent. Franklin played four instruments. He was the nation's leading scientist and inventor, plus a leading author, statesman, and philanthropist. There has never been anyone like him."
"With four pairs of shoes I can travel the world."
"We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us."
"Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around."
"I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it."
"It is impossible to imagine a four-dimensional space. I personally find it hard enough to visualize a three-dimensional space!"
"What are Americans still buying? Big Macs,Campbell's soup,Hershey's chocolate and Spam--the four food groups of the apocalypse."
"True time is four-dimensional."
"On the four aces doom'd to roll."
"Sam Snead did to the tee-shot what Roger Bannister did to the four-minute mile."
"Oh, I got a beautiful 1959 Cadillac Coupe DeVille four-door. No one will ride in it with me."
"It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life."
"Can you comprehend everything in the four directions and still do nothing?"
