Forty Quotes

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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.

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

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

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

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

Don't ever go with the flow. Be the flow.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, ''Are you willing to have a conversation with this woman for the next forty years?'' That's how to pick a wife.

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

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

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

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

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

For a woman, forty is torture, the end.

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."

Live with a man forty years. Share his house, his meals, speak on every subject. Then tie him up and hold him over the volcano's edge, and on that day, you will finally meet the man.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.