Quotes about Forty

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. Votes: 6

Every man over forty is a scoundrel. Votes: 4

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. Votes: 4

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. Votes: 4

She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction. Votes: 4

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week. Votes: 4

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. Votes: 4

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That's when you know the most, you've seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy. Votes: 4

Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman. Votes: 4

Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you! Votes: 3

Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown. Votes: 3

Forty percent of my ideas came from my wife. Votes: 3

Where the underworld can meet the elite, Forty-Second Street. Votes: 3

Forty-eight years is almost enough time to hold a record, Votes: 3

Forty minutes in front of Beck isn't really where it's at. Votes: 3

Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be. Votes: 3

Forty-seven years -- and I find I mind it less and less. Votes: 3

Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court. Votes: 3

Forty-seven is nothing at all, nor is any age unless you're a cheese ... Votes: 3

Forty-five hundred outstanding lawsuits now for Donald Trump, including Trump University in court . Votes: 3

Forty is brilliant and I love it. I'm happier now than when I was 20. Votes: 3

Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops. Votes: 3

Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age Votes: 3

Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential. Votes: 3

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children. Votes: 3

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children." Votes: 3

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is. Votes: 3

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think. Votes: 3

I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible. Votes: 3

Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body. Votes: 3

I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum. Votes: 3

Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow. Votes: 3

The Forty Rules of Love is a wise, joyous page-turner... and one that speaks urgently to our war-ravaged times. Votes: 3

Forty states have sued tobacco companies over the costs of health care for residents on Medicaid and public assistance. Votes: 3

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification. Votes: 3

One piece of graffiti doesn't mean much. Forty pieces of graffiti might mean something... It's all about connecting the dots. Votes: 3

Forty million Americans smoked marijuana; the only ones who didn't like it were Judge Ginsberg, Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton. Votes: 3

Forty-five years since I made my first paycheck, and I'm telling you that 'Breaking Bad' is as good as it gets. Votes: 3

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil. Votes: 3

Forty-eight frames per second is a way, way better way to look at 3D. It's so much more comfortable on the eyes. Votes: 3

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay. Votes: 3

Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore. Votes: 3

The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm. Votes: 3

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options. Votes: 3

The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape. Votes: 3

I hope the Canada Pops can play in E and A. I do 'Forty Days' and 'Bo Diddley'. I don't change songs, just bands. Votes: 3

Women are really demanding more flexibility in the workplace. Control is the new currency.. Forty-six percent of women want to start their own small businesses. Votes: 3

The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal. Votes: 3

We have 11 million people said to be in our country illegally. Forty percent of them are said to have overstayed their visa. Do we know where they are? Votes: 3

They always prided themselves on looking youthful. "Forty's the new thirty," they'd joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty's the new one hundred. Votes: 3

We must have safe places where people can discuss and be treated. Forty-four million people are already dead from AIDS. What logic is there in not discussing the word? Votes: 3

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward. Votes: 3

What Turning Forty Means to Me I need to take my pants off as soon as I get home. I didn't used to have to do that. But now I do. Votes: 3

What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" "Six by nine. Forty two." "That's it. That's all there is." "I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe Votes: 3

When one woman was asked how long she had been going to symphony concerts, she paused to calculate and replied, 'Forty-seven years - and I find I mind it less and less. Votes: 3

Women are opening businesses at twice the rate of men ... Forty percent of businesses will be owned by women. Women are saying, I don't belong in this company. I'm sick of fighting this battle. Votes: 3

My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out. Votes: 3

Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin. Wait till you come to Forty Year. Votes: 3

Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth. Votes: 3

Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate - unless one attempts to make himself believe that the wilderness is after all itself the promised land. Votes: 3

Forty pictures I was in, and all I remember is 'What kind of bra will you be wearing today, honey?' That was always the area of big decision - from the neck to the navel. Votes: 3

Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks. Votes: 3

Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia. Votes: 3

I remember Grace (Coddington) looking at me and said, 'Can you do something?' and I was like, 'OK, how long do you give me?' and she said 'Half an hour?', I said 'Forty-five minutes?' Votes: 3

I know some good old gals in their 50s and 60s. All these women tell me, 'Forty to 50. Those are the hot times.' So far, you couldn't prove it by me. But hell, I'm only two years in. Votes: 3

I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call. Votes: 3

Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces. Votes: 2

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials. Votes: 2

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. Votes: 2

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed. Votes: 2

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. Votes: 2

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face. Votes: 2

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense. Votes: 2

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford. Votes: 2

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. Votes: 2

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to. Votes: 2

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it Votes: 2

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. Votes: 2

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies. Votes: 2

I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men. Votes: 2

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you. Votes: 2

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain. Votes: 2

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions. Votes: 2

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience. Votes: 2

Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate. Votes: 2

Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land. Votes: 2

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am. Votes: 2

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. Votes: 2

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never. Votes: 2

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil. Votes: 2

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany. Votes: 2

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. Votes: 2

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this. Votes: 2

When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright. Votes: 2

I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me, nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce. Votes: 2

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good. Votes: 2

Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that's kinda wild when you think about it. Votes: 2

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. Votes: 2

We have all been guilty of complaining, but God does not look at it as lightly as we may think. Complaining was the reason the Jews ended up wandering in the desert for forty years. If we were more grateful for what God has done for us, abasing ourselves would not be a problem. Votes: 2

I see so many fools in this world that sometimes I could just go home and cry about what people do to themselves Hey, wake up, wake up, look here! Think a minute, think a minute. This is your life! You got, what, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty years here, and you gonna be gone.' Votes: 2

Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, 'Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?' Votes: 2

Life begins at age forty. Votes: 0

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Votes: 0

...he was forty bushels beyond bamboozled. Votes: 0

I saw the sunset forty-four times! Votes: 0

For a woman, forty is torture, the end. Votes: 0

I'll be dead by the time I'm forty. Votes: 0

Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life. Votes: 0

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces. Votes: 0

I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever. Votes: 0

I only mean forty per cent of what I say. Votes: 0

A forty and a blunt, that's all she really wants. Votes: 0

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five. Votes: 0

For forty years, I've worn the same Azzaro Uomo fragrance. Votes: 0

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested. Votes: 0

There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago. Votes: 0

I've been married forty-five years. I think laughter is the secret. Votes: 0

I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty. Votes: 0

I've made forty-three pictures. Naturally I'm adorable in all of them. Votes: 0

Let us not aspire to four-year goals but rather forty-year goals. Votes: 0

One deed of kindness noticed is worth forty that are told. Votes: 0

I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty. Votes: 0

Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. Votes: 0

And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres. Votes: 0

No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage. Votes: 0

Me and Paul (Dean) will probably win forty games (they won forty-nine). Votes: 0

God, it sucks to disappoint your parents, even at forty-two years old. Votes: 0

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. Votes: 0

You should never trust anyone who listens to Mahler before they're forty. Votes: 0

I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age. Votes: 0

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age. Votes: 0

Be wise with speed a fool at forty is a fool indeed Votes: 0

No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet. Votes: 0

What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map? Votes: 0

My wife and I have enjoyed over forty years of wedded blitz. Votes: 0

I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty Votes: 0

No one who works a forty hour week will ever beat me. Votes: 0

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family. Votes: 0

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it. Votes: 0

Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist. Votes: 0

Once I was a forty pound weakling. Now I am two separate gorillas Votes: 0

My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac. Votes: 0

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago. Votes: 0

I'll be clickin' by your house about two forty-five, Sidewalk Sundae Strawberry Surprise. Votes: 0

We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score. Votes: 0

With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus. Votes: 0

I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black. Votes: 0

I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up. Votes: 0

My parents stayed together for forty years. But that was out of spite. Votes: 0

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty. Votes: 0

At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women. Votes: 0

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature Votes: 0

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years. Votes: 0

After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands. Votes: 0

My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously. Votes: 0

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research. Votes: 0

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know. Votes: 0

I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away. Votes: 0

We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old. Votes: 0

I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs. Votes: 0

The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day. Votes: 0

Of course, personally, I think it'd be tacky to wear diamonds before I'm forty. Votes: 0

There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. Votes: 0

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four. Votes: 0

Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit. Votes: 0

My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it. Votes: 0

This is what forty looks like. We've been lying so long, who would know? Votes: 0

If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens. Votes: 0

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will! Votes: 0

Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks. Votes: 0

I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits. Votes: 0

My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy. Votes: 0

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it. Votes: 0

America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments. Votes: 0

On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia. Votes: 0

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan. Votes: 0

From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr. Votes: 0

There are books which one should not attempt before having passed the age of forty. Votes: 0

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity. Votes: 0

I'm forty four; I'm way closer to dead than I am life of the party. Votes: 0

In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers. Votes: 0

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. Votes: 0

The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet. Votes: 0

I turned forty, and Im finally going to get married and maybe have a kid. Votes: 0

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician. Votes: 0

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one. Votes: 0

I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me Votes: 0

Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk. Votes: 0

The ideal age for a boy to own a dog is between forty-five and fifty. Votes: 0

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate. Votes: 0

Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand... Votes: 0

If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head. Votes: 0

A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never! Votes: 0

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? Votes: 0

she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses. Votes: 0

I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old. Votes: 0

For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus] Votes: 0

Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work. Votes: 0

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty. Votes: 0

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years. Votes: 0

I drink twenty forties, smoke forty blunts, Say a hundred rhymes, and not sound like you once. Votes: 0

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits. Votes: 0

A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year. Votes: 0

Manicures: Which are basically just holding hands with a stranger for forty-five minutes whilst listening to Enya. Votes: 0

Once you pass forty, a dime isn't worth bending over to pick up if you drop one. Votes: 0

You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life. Votes: 0

We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights. Votes: 0

I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dude's eye and shoot him with my ole forty-five. Votes: 0

You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating. Votes: 0

I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . . Votes: 0

I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies. Votes: 0

Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past. Votes: 0

Did you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once? Votes: 0

I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened. Votes: 0

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine. Votes: 0

All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve. Votes: 0

It took me a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints and forty minutes to get over that boy. Votes: 0

Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert. Votes: 0

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. Votes: 0

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up. Votes: 0

The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young. Votes: 0

it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco. Votes: 0

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer. Votes: 0

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight Votes: 0

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight. Votes: 0

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Votes: 0

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week. Votes: 0

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. Votes: 0

I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary. Votes: 0

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. Votes: 0

There is a prophetic release that occurs in a church or an individual who fasts continually for forty days. Votes: 0

Two-hundred forty horsepower isn't enough to move me anymore. Enough to move my body, yes, but not my soul. Votes: 0

Stefan Sagmeister says that nobody innovates past forty-five, but I think he's wrong. I want to keep doing it. Votes: 0

Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff Votes: 0

It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face. Votes: 0

Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then. Votes: 0

I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine. Votes: 0

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. Votes: 0

Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive. Votes: 0

The ethical argument regarding abortion hinges on the question of when life begins. Some believe life begins at forty. Votes: 0

Kit, you're forty. You look thirty. You act...well, never mind. You're carrying on like you think you're seventy Votes: 0

In forty-five minutes, it'll all be done. We'll all be good and crispy, but we'll still be number one. Votes: 0

Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever. Votes: 0

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1. Votes: 0

I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me. Votes: 0

Gosh, all a kid has to do these days is spit straight and he gets forty-thousand dollars to sign. Votes: 0

Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty. Votes: 0

It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in." Votes: 0

I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men. Votes: 0

People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working. Votes: 0

My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old. Votes: 0

One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets. Votes: 0

It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air. Votes: 0

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something. Votes: 0

Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters. Votes: 0

One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising. Votes: 0

Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it Votes: 0

At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person's job. Votes: 0

Until he is forty, a man is too young to marry; and after he is forty, he is too old. Votes: 0

You know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy. Votes: 0

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony. Votes: 0

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty. Votes: 0

The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty. Votes: 0

It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss. Votes: 0

When I was thirty and perhaps forty, I did not want a wife. It was too much fun being single. Votes: 0

The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier. Votes: 0

With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black! Votes: 0

One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant. Votes: 0

I may be forty, but every morning when I get up, I feel like a twenty-year-old. Unfortunately, there's never one around. Votes: 0

Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door. Votes: 0

There aren't four seasons a year in the mountains; there are forty seasons a day up there in those divine altitudes! Votes: 0

Jack Woodson is currently living and working in Dallas, TX. He has forty children, and all of them have different mothers. Votes: 0

Pressure? Well it ain't hitting in forty-four straight games, because I done that and it was fun. The playoffs are pressure. Votes: 0

I had a dream about you last night... you made a beard for yourself out of forty two bags of Twizzlers. Votes: 0

I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt. Votes: 0

By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty. Votes: 0

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely. Votes: 0

My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money. Votes: 0

Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them. Votes: 0

I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now, and I never get tired of the view. Votes: 0

I started going to Ohio University when I was in my mid-thirties, ended up with an English degree when I was forty. Votes: 0

Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life. Votes: 0

There are thirty to forty thousand left-wing professors in the United States who are racists, murderers, sexual deviants and supporters of Al-Qaeda. Votes: 0

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves. Votes: 0

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love? Votes: 0

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion. Votes: 0

When I go outside in the morning for coffee, I'm not going to spend forty-five minutes getting ready. I just don't care. Votes: 0

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you. Votes: 0

After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket. Votes: 0

The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon. Votes: 0

Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them. Votes: 0

Though the Bible was written over sixteen centuries by at least forty authors, it has one central theme-salvation through faith in Christ. Votes: 0

When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive. Votes: 0

Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet. Votes: 0

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person. Votes: 0

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness. Votes: 0

If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once. Votes: 0

Chirren [children] is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two. Votes: 0

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending. Votes: 0

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. Votes: 0

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions Votes: 0

All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am. Votes: 0

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about. Votes: 0

I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!" "An exact science?!" "Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three dollars! Votes: 0

Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop. Votes: 0

The trees at Cloudwalk have been my friends for forty years. I'm sure if I were sawed in half, our rings would match. Votes: 0

No one else could carry close to forty-five thousand people in such a short amount of time. Not in a million human years. Votes: 0

Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge. Votes: 0

Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life ... Votes: 0

For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three. Votes: 0

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it. Votes: 0

Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least. Votes: 0

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't. Votes: 0

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own. Votes: 0

I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding. Votes: 0

I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse. Votes: 0

Something's still wrong--the same thing that was wrong forty years ago. A malignancy, a tumor, slowly growing in someone's heart. A conscience that's seared. Votes: 0

At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish. Votes: 0

Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise! Votes: 0

Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility. Votes: 0

Today, 9 May, exactly forty-nine months and three days after the Fascist attack on Yugoslavia, the most powerful aggressive force in Europe, Germany, has capitulated. Votes: 0

Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder, I'm an over forty victim of fate. Votes: 0

It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty. Votes: 0

[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy. Votes: 0

Someone has said that after age forty, each of us pretty much deserves the face he is wearing. He designed it form the inside. Votes: 0

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward. Votes: 0

Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life. Votes: 0

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again. Votes: 0

A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty. Votes: 0

I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God. Votes: 0

I'm not sure I would have ever decided to try to write when I was forty-five if I hadn't already gotten that degree [in English]. Votes: 0

Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your passions exhaust you. Votes: 0

You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working. Votes: 0

The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head. Votes: 0

I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight. Votes: 0

I wasn't there that day to get on the three forty-seven to Yass", he says. "I was there to throw myself in front of it. Votes: 0

Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody. Votes: 0

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down. Votes: 0

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty. Votes: 0

and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty. Votes: 0

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty. Votes: 0

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know. Votes: 0

In essence, we're imaging the same cell for anywhere from forty to a hundred thousand times to create one of the movies that we see. Votes: 0

You run for forty-five minutes, you train for an hour and a half, and the rest of the time you hang out and talk tough Votes: 0

The best educators I have met never stop asking questions. Some of them have taught for forty years and continue to be energized by new possibilities. Votes: 0

For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased. Votes: 0

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings. Votes: 0

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living. Votes: 0

After forty years, with whatever authority comes from lived experience, I can say: You, too, can create something. You can nurture it and watch it grow. Votes: 0

Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the state of South Carolina. Votes: 0

I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo. Votes: 0

Cypress Point is such a beautiful place, but it's also very exclusive. They had a very successful membership drive last month. They drove out forty members. Votes: 0

When I was nineteen years old, I was the number-one star for two years. When I was forty, nobody wanted me. I couldn't get a job. Votes: 0

Even after forty years of directing, shooting and editing films, when I collaborate with a male partner, people still perceive the man as the primary filmmaker. Votes: 0

Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day. Votes: 0

Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker. Votes: 0

I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar of the big crowd. Votes: 0

Rock and roll was something to fall back on. If I had my choice, I'd be Jerry Rice and I'd be playing until I was forty-five. Votes: 0

There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity. Votes: 0

Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive. Votes: 0

I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others. Votes: 0

Seventy-five percent of all Americans believe that angels are real. Which is amazing when you consider that forty percent of all Americans think DNA evidence is unreliable. Votes: 0

me: just don't ask about his forty-three ex-boyfriends, okay? or ask him about why he's carrying around an axe. mom:... me: i'm kidding about the axe part. Votes: 0

There are so many different fifteens. And eighteens. And forty-twos, for that matter. Mature fifteens and young fifteens and wise fifteens and lost fifteens. And angry fifteens. Votes: 0

Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time. Votes: 0

Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I'm a case of working forty years to be an overnight success. Votes: 0

Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time. Votes: 0

I have always been a singer/songwriter, and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there. Votes: 0

There is no doubt that every healthy, normal boy...should own a dog at some time in his life, preferably between the ages of forty-five and fifty. Votes: 0

You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy. Votes: 0

Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. Votes: 0

For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in no way privileged. Votes: 0

Who would you die for? Who would you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you? Votes: 0

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am. Votes: 0

The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity. Votes: 0

It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three. Votes: 0

The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once. Votes: 0

There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent. Votes: 0

I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty. Votes: 0

To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' s**t and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty and still doing it. Votes: 0

He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit. Votes: 0

Remember that the Clerget lands very fast, at over forty miles an hour, and with that great engine in the nose the tail was light. Watch it... Lovely. Votes: 0

I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever. Votes: 0

This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes to get a beer. Votes: 0

If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better. Votes: 0

Sawed off shotgun, hand on the pump Left hand on a forty, puffin' on a blunt Pumped my shotgun, niggas didn't jump... Lala la la lala la laaaa Votes: 0

I don't love the years going by. I'd just as soon stay forty-five. But it's OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five. Votes: 0

Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate. Votes: 0

We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that. Votes: 0

Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years. Votes: 0

Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy? Votes: 0

For forty days, for forty nights Jesus put one foot in front of the other and the man he carried, if it was a man, became heavier and heavier. Votes: 0

Five and forty steps the sky will burn. Fire approaching the large new city. Instantly a great thin flame will leap, when someone will want to test the Normans. Votes: 0

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years. Votes: 0

Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host. Votes: 0

Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love. Votes: 0

It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad. Votes: 0

Asked by reporters about his upcoming marriage to a forty-two-year-old woman, director Roman Polanski told reporters, `The way I look at it, she's the equivalent of three fourteen-year-olds.' Votes: 0

At forty-one, now I think it would be really cool to have an A&R guy say, "You know what? I don't think you've got this album sequenced right." Votes: 0

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear. Votes: 0

Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries. Votes: 0

She fell down fifty-five floors. It took 10.6 seconds for her to hit the ground. It took my father forty-eight hours to come back home from his business trip in Sweden. Votes: 0

Since I was forty and definitely slipping, I have won seven full marathons, got second six times, and third four times.... I'm wondering what I can do after I'm fifty. Votes: 0

I am a rapid-cycling manic-depressive, bi-polar one disorder, which means I can have thirty or forty episodes a year, and I used to have thirty to forty episodes a year. Votes: 0

A typical five-year-old consumes about 60 percent more ketchup than a typical forty-year-old, and the company realized that it needed to put ketchup in a bottle that a toddler could control. Votes: 0

I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else. Votes: 0

Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now, once again, she was waiting. Votes: 0

One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress. Votes: 0

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required. Votes: 0

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. Votes: 0

I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation. Votes: 0

It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity. Votes: 0

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man: Votes: 0

I did a lot of good work for the rest of the forty years... science is an incremental thing. Everything builds on everything else, it's a pattern, it's a mosaic. Votes: 0

So I bought a forty-four magnum, it was solid steel cast, and in the blessed name of Elvis, well I just let it blast 'til my TV lay in pieces. Votes: 0

Life is too short to spend forty to fifty hours around people who do nothing but stress you out and make you desire to go stick your head in a blender. Votes: 0

Harry and I have been sweethearts and married more than forty years - and no matter where I was, when I put out my hand Harry's was there to grasp it. Votes: 0

When I was a boy, we had forty five statues of saints in my house. Ever have ninety eyes looking at you every time you have to go to the bathroom? Votes: 0

The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life Votes: 0

Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an entire German race of philosophical systems. Votes: 0

I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility. Votes: 0

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty. Votes: 0

The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds. Votes: 0

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. Votes: 0

My mother and father are still together after forty something years. I lived in one place till I was 6. I lived in another place from when I was 6 till I was 17. Votes: 0

A thousand years ago five minutes wereEqual to forty ounces of fine sand.Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime andInfinite aftertime: above your headThey close like giant wings, and you are dead. Votes: 0

No one could say the stories were uselessfor as the tongue clackedfive or forty fingers stitchedcorn was grated from the huskpathwork was piecedor the darning was done(from 'The Storyteller Poems') Votes: 0

Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this. Votes: 0

Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease Votes: 0

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part of yourself that will never be tamed. Votes: 0

I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say, 'Which of these things do I want to record?' Votes: 0

The most impressive person I've ever met? Elaine Wynn is no slouch. She's a much better person than me. But I've got her. Finders keepers, losers weepers. And it's been forty-seven years. Votes: 0

I always say, or have said in the past, that ninety-nine and forty-four-hundredths of the audience does not pay any attention to the lighting, but one hundred percent is affected by it. Votes: 0

Don't be a salary slave! If you are going to do anything in this world, you must start before you are forty, before your period of initiative has ended. Do it now! Votes: 0

Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet. Votes: 0

I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it. Votes: 0

Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old. Votes: 0

You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad...""Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?"But the little prince made no reply. Votes: 0

Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while. Votes: 0

Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay. Votes: 0

He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you. God I hate that stuff. Votes: 0

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. Votes: 0

I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby. Votes: 0

I had no concept of this [healthy food] until very, very late in life, thanks to a trainer/nutritionist that I met who has been working with me since I was forty-five. Votes: 0

Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware. Votes: 0

Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be present in a hundred and forty five pound block of meat. Votes: 0

Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk." Votes: 0

There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it. Votes: 0

For forty years I have been married to one of the greatest women the world has ever produced. All I could produce - small as it may be - was love and loyalty. Votes: 0

North Vegas is where you go if you're a hooker turning forty and the syndicate men on the strip decide you're no longer much good for business out there with the high rollers. Votes: 0

There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of forty percent or more. Votes: 0

My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey. Votes: 0

There's shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a man never should reason away. Votes: 0

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. Votes: 0

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs? Votes: 0

When I was about twenty-five years of age, Professor Sims informed me that I could sing, but added, 'I would like to be at least forty miles away while you are doing it.' Votes: 0

If you want to sustain excellence over a long time, you'd better come up with a system that works well. Anyone can sprint for a little while, but you can't sprint for forty years. Votes: 0

I've tried never to be easily satisfied, and I've been painting like fury now for forty years.... I have a feeling. You paint about as far as your emotions go, and that's about it. Votes: 0

We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately "create the future of mankind." This is the final conclusion of the forty years which I have now devoted to the study of these problems Votes: 0

When my pop career was over, I was scratching my head, thinking, "God, how am I going to do something after I'm forty?" I was in my mid-thirties, thinking I was on the scrap heap. Votes: 0

I've always loved the future. But I must say the future changes a lot quicker than it used to. An era used to last thirty or forty years - now we're lucky if it's five. Votes: 0

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this Votes: 0

When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke, you can pretty much guess what it's going to be. Votes: 0

Have you ever noticed how many men in the Bible failed in the second half of life? Our enemy is so cunning that he will wait forty or even fifty years to set a trap. Votes: 0

One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old. Votes: 0

For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety. But maybe this is good-I have never the time to get myself bored. Votes: 0

The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church. Votes: 0

Stop saying drug use makes people lazy. Jimi Hendrix did a lot of drugs, even though he's been dead for forty years, he's still making new records. Suck on that, Partnership for a Drug-Free America! Votes: 0

I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air! Votes: 0