Forty Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

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

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

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

If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.

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

I only mean forty per cent of what I say.

I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.

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

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

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?

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.

I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock'n'roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock'n'roll.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.

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.

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

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