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“My only regret is that we didn't have more kids. I came from a family of four kids, but my wife and I just started too late.”

Kids Four Wife Regret Late My Wife Too Late

Author:John Lithgow

“Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents. No phone, no pool, no pets, ain't got no big regrets. Two hours of pushin' broom, buys an eight by twelve, four-bit room. I'm a man of means, by no means, king of the road.”

Men Mean Two Bigs Bits Hours Rooms Four Regret Kings Travel Phones Eight Fifty Pet Pool Twelve Cents Trailers Brooms

Author:Roger Miller

“I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.”

Years Age Born Half Four Regret Half A Year

Book:Groucho And Me

Source: Groucho And Me

“I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.”

Different Fall Boys Records Four Happened Regret Band Track Albums Planning Solo Different Directions Delayed Don't Regret Fall Out Boy

Author:Patrick Stump

“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.”

Made Bigs Wanted Fighting Differences Careers Five Four Regret Managers Larry Holmes Payday

Author:Gerry Cooney

“In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen.”

Source: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.”

Ifs Years Young Reading Four Minutes Regret Six Twenties Thirty Worn I Regret Bikinis

Author:Nora Ephron

“Erin and I spent four hours shopping for dresses and shoes Tuesday night. She was going all out in her intention to make Chaz regret any decision he'd made that didn't include worshipping at her feet.”

Made Night Hours Decision Four Feet Regret Dresses Intention Shoes Shopping Tuesday Erin Tuesday Night

Author:Tammara Webber

“When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.”

Ifs Men Action Suffering Lost Loses Mistake Quality Courage Four Failing Conditions Regret Fool Battle Respect Accounts Absolutes Defeat Wide Awake Fulfilled Assurance Pitiful Wide Awake

Author:Carlos Castaneda

“I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are.”

Has Beens Facts Nature Four Regret Aspect Responsible Fundamentals Apologizing Lectures Geometry Dose I Regret

Book:The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November, 1919

Source: The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November, 1919

“Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret”

Four Regret Bob Don't Regret

Author:Ethel Merman