Fourth Quotes

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest. (Helen Rowland)
There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. View quote
Norman Mailer
The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. View quote
James A. Michener
The Fourth Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion. View quote
Potter Stewart
Burke said that there were Three Estates in Parliament but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate, more important far than they all. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. View quote
Ani DiFranco
A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in w. View quote
Jonathan Swift
In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave. View quote
Vitruvius
Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the fourth and the fifth, and with geometricians in the subject of vision; and in all other sciences many points, perhaps all, are common so far as the discussion of them is concerned. But the actual undertaking of works which are brought to perfection by the hand and its manipulation is the function of those who have been specially trained to deal with a single art. View quote
Vitruvius
I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life third, because although they took my all, it was not much and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed. (Matthew Henry)
Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15. View quote
Ronald Reagan
There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C. View quote
James Henry Breasted
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero. View quote
David R. Ellis
No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July. View quote
Mac Thornberry
In lecturing on cookery, as on housebuilding, I divide the subject into, not four, but five grand elements: first, Bread; second, Butter; third, Meat; fourth, Vegetables; and fifth, Tea - by which I mean, generically, all sorts of warm, comfortable drinks served out in teacups, whether they be called tea, coffee, chocolate, broma, or what not. I affirm that, if these five departments are all perfect, the great ends of domestic cookery are answered, so far as the comfort and well-being of life are concerned. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Is it the Fourth. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way. View quote
Hilary Duff
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket. View quote
Sylvia Plath
If one fourth of the capital of a country were suddenly destroyed, or entirely transferred to a different part of the world, without any other cause occurring of a diminished demand for commodities, this scantiness of capital would certainly occasion great inconvenience to consumers, and great distress among the working classes; but it would be attended with great advantages to the remaining capitalists. View quote
Thomas Malthus
One thing is sure – we have to transform the three-dimensional world of objects into the two-dimensional world of the canvas... To transform three into two dimensions is for me an experience full of magic in which I glimpse for a moment that fourth dimension which my whole being is seeking. (Max Beckmann)
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money. View quote
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within. So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all. View quote
Ramakrishna
Concerning the Gods, there are who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs nor concerns itself nor has forethought for anything. A third party attribute to it existence and forethought, but only for great and heavenly matters, not for anything that is on earth. A fourth party admit things on earth as well as in heaven, but only in general, and not with respect to each individual. A fifth, of whom were Ulysses and Socrates, are those that cry:- I move not without Thy knowledge! View quote
Epictetus
One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course. View quote
E. M. Forster