Words matter. Especially ones with four letters.
You know you're getting old when a four-letter word for something pleasurable to do in bed is r-e-a-d.
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.
I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.
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.
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.
My mother won't tolerate any four-letter words.
President Johnson wanted his speech writers to use words with fou r letters, sentences with four words, and paragraphs with four sentences
They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.
The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.
