Fours Quotes

• Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

  James Thurber

  Art, Men, Long

  1939 In Forum and Century magazine, Jun.

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• Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.

  Ninette de Valois

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• A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.

  Christy Mathewson

  Baseball, Boys, Should Have

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Gun, Pigs

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 114), 1963.

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• One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

  Voltaire

  Work, Reading, Crawling

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• I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three potato chips doesn't seem right.

  Jimmy Wales

  Thinking, Nuts, Three

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• The indignity of it!-
  With everything blooming above me,
  Lilies, pale-pink cyclamen, roses,
  Whole fields lovely and inviolate,-
  Me down in the fetor of weeds,
  Crawling on all fours,
  Alive, in a slippery grave.

  Theodore Roethke

  Weed, Rose, Lovely

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.71, Anchor

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• We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel.... Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours ... When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do will be to scurry around like drugged roaches in a bottle.

  Rafael Eitan

  Israel, Land, Roaches

  New York Times, April 14, 1983.

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• And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, From a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petit fours a friend of mine gave me for Christmas.

  Martha Grimes

  Tea, Rooms, Marvelous

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• I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Three, Way

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• The only intelligent way to discuss politics is
  on all fours.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Intelligent, Way

  "Borders". Documentary, www.imdb.com. May 5, 1989.

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• Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance.

  Khwaja Abdullah Ansari

  Kindness, Government, Arrogance

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• Because there are no fours.

  Antoine Walker

  Basketball, Funniest Sports

  "Jason Collins jerseys, four-pointers and other NBA conspiracies" by Hunter Felt, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2014.

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• When a doting person gets down on all fours and plays with a puppy's rubber mouse, for instance, it only confuses the young dog and gives him a sense of insecurity. He gets the impression that his world is unstable, and wonders whether he is expected to walk on his hind legs and learn to smoke cigars.

  Corey Ford

  Funny, Dog, Play

  "The Trickiest Thing in Feathers".

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• Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of method and discrimination. On every side we see big two-fisted he-men floundering round in three figures, stopping every few minutes to let through little shrimps with knock-knees and hollow cheeks, who are tearing up snappy seventy-fours.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Men, Two

  P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.189, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and make loud "snort" noises.) I don't know why parents don't do this more often. Usually it makes the kid laugh. Sometimes it sends him into shock. Either way it quiets him down. If you're a parent, acting like a rhino has another advantage. Keep it up until the kid is a teenager and he definitely won't have his friends hanging around your house all the time.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Mom, Baby

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• I liked it. I liked her. And every time I saw her, she seemed more beautiful. She just seemed to glow. I'm not talking like a hundred-watt bulb; she just had this warmth to her. Maybe it came from climbing that tree. Maybe it came from singing to chickens. Maybe it came from whacking at two-by-fours and dreaming about perpetual motion. I don't know. All I know is that compared to her, Shelly and Miranda seemed so...ordinary.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Beautiful, Dream, Climbing

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• I say, I don’t think the human frame is very thoughtfully constructed for this sleuthhound business. If one could go on all fours, or had eyes in ones knees, it would be a lot more practical’… ‘What luck! Here’s a deep, damp ditch on the other side, which I shall now proceed to fall into.’ A slithering crash proclaimed that he had carried out his intention.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Fall, Eye, Thinking

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Clouds of Witness”, p.60, Open Road Media

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• ... he trotted down the hallway on all fours and started in on his second favorite pastime, conversations with plumbing. Just what I needed: Stone, the Toilet Whisperer.

  Devon Monk

  Toilets, Stones, Conversation

  Devon Monk (2009). “Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.290, Penguin

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• Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

  John Denham

  Book, Reading, Use

  Sir John Denham (1719). “Poems and Translations: With The Sophy, a Tragedy. Written by the Honourable Sir John Denham, ...”, p.94

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• Somehow I had to turn the salted peanuts in the cigar box into petits fours.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Cigar, Peanuts, Boxes

  Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.92, Penguin

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• Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

  Isabel Paterson

  Views, Might, Danger

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• From the three, you then use one to make eight ones. You add those ones to the three, and you get one-three base eight, or, in other words, In base ten you have eleven, and you take away seven. And seven from eleven is four. Now go back to the sixty-fours, you're left with two.

  Tom Lehrer

  Two, Eight, Add

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• The black man will inherit the earth; he will resume control, taking back the position he held centuries ago when the white devil was crawling around the caves of Europe on his all fours. Before the white devil came into our lives we had a civilization, we had a culture, we were living in silks and satins. Then he put us in chains and put us aboard the "Good Ship Jesus," and we have lived in hell ever since.

  Malcolm X

  Jesus, Men, Europe

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Angela had done a marvelous job, I tell you. The puke was everywhere except the toilet. The walls, the floor, the sinks - even on the ceiling, though don't ask me how she did that. So there I was, perched on all fours, cleaning up the puke at the homecoming dance in my best blue suit, which was exactly what I had wanted to avoid in the first place. And Jamie, my date, was on all fours, too, doing exactly the same thing.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Jobs, Wall, Blue

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