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If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children (Forty Quotes)
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 (Forty Quotes)
She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn’t help wondering from what direction (Forty Quotes)
A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind (Forty Quotes)
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 (Forty Quotes)
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 (Forty Quotes)
Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground (Forty Quotes)
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 (Forty Quotes)
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 (Forty Quotes)
One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant (Forty Quotes)
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 (Forty Quotes)
If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty, you have no brain (Forty Quotes)
The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape (Forty Quotes)
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect (Forty Quotes)
At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job (Forty Quotes)
Of course you don’t believe in fairies. You’re fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn’t a fairy. He was a librarian. All right? (Forty Quotes)
She is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses (Forty Quotes)
I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it (Forty Quotes)
For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness (Forty Quotes)
The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties (Forty Quotes)
Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then (Forty Quotes)
If you are not financially independent by the time you are forty or fifty, it doesn’t mean that you are living in the wrong country or at the wrong time. It simply means that you have the wrong plan (Forty Quotes)
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 (Forty Quotes)
I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn’t (Forty Quotes)
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it (Forty Quotes)
Once you pass forty, a dime isn’t worth bending over to pick up if you drop one (Forty Quotes)
An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress (Forty Quotes)
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 (Forty Quotes)
The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what is to follow, and in autumn it is the glory of the field, and only the frost lays it low. So there are many people who must live forty or fifty years, and have the crude sap of their natural dispositions changed and sweetened before the blossoming time can come; but their lives have not been wasted (Forty Quotes)
I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down (Forty Quotes)