Four Quotes

When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.

When I give the go ahead, go ahead," Alyss said, the jungle gym having come to a stop less than a gwormmy-length from her face. What? the four General Doppels cried at once. Run when I say so.

A man walked into a shop and asked, "How much are your eggs?" He said "£1.40 a dozen". He then asked: "How much are your cracked ones?" He said: "35p". He said: "Crack us four dozen."

I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

I'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four.

Of the four major pathways to self-realization, jnana yoga, from the point of view of the beginner, is the most difficult.

When I was very, very young - four, five, six - I could see inside people, their motives, their dreams, their apprehension of reality.

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.

The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment.

The male or female that the child has the most exposure to in the first four to six years of its life is the primary imprinter of the child.

I've lived in worlds where there are three or four suns. We had incredible sunsets, beautiful. But they weren't more beautiful than here, if my mind is more beautiful in each life.

As you do your daily meditations, your life will change. Most people change between the ages of zero to four. The older we get the less we change. When we meditate we become perpetually young.

There are four principal pathways that lead to enlightement: The yoga of love, the yoga of service, the yoga of knowledge, and the yoga of mysticism.

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.

These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?

I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.

But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.

..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.

you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will

Twenty-four years ago I went through a profound conversion of heart and God led me to the Catholic Church. A few years later I felt Him calling me to start a Bible study program.

Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.

There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.

I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.

I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.

I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.

There are only four trophies available to win at the start of every season and there will be some big teams this year who won't win one at all.

I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film.

There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.

I'm very active. I've got two small daughters and four restaurants in three cities. I'm busy.

Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

How old are you? 'I'm four and a half!' You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key.

The Olympics are every four years and I think every athlete who competes in the Olympics wants the gold medal, and I think that's what the World Cup is for a rugby player - it's the gold medal.

To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.

A horse stumbles that hath foure legges. [A horse stumbles that has four legs.]

I'm not religious. I do have a baby - a four-month old girl - and that's a religion in itself.

Four legs gooood, two legs baaad!

David Cone is in a class by himself with three or four other players.

Protests [against Donald Trump] four nights running.Thousands marching across the country.

I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.

We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation.

You can sum up what has killed capitalism in four words: too big to fail.

The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons.

If I give you my idea and you give me yours, then we each have two ideas, and together we have four.

The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before going in with [Larry] Holmes. That would have made all the difference.

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.