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“Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.”

Dear Memorable Forty Pushing Sarcastic Hanging On Dear Life

“Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce you for refusing to spend forty hours a week making up lies about toilet paper.”

Source: The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig

“Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.”

Thinking Way Honesty Forty

Book:The Complete Letters of Mark Twain

Source: The Complete Letters of Mark Twain

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

Inspirational Christ Written Century Salvation Theme Forty Sixteen

Book:Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal

Source: Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal

“The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.”

Change Hours Four Week Charm Forty Permanence

Author:Nicholas Murray Butler

“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.”

People Men Party Gone He Man Remains Forty Host Gathering Invitations Liquor Cocktails Cocktail Parties Party Invitations After Party

Author:Fred Allen

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

Men Age Moving Fall Natural Fifty Forty Vigor Inspirational Birthday Falling Off

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?”

Self Age Break Five Wise Stupid Twenties Maturity Confused Forty Adolescence Insecure Sixteen Twenty Five Assertive Self Confident Indecisive I Was Stupid

Author:Jules Feiffer

“Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious amount of work. The second is that they never know fatigue. And the third is that their minds grow more brilliant as they grow older, instead of less brilliant. Great men's lives begin at forty, where the mediocre man's life ends. The genius remains an ever-flowing fountain of creative achievement until the very last breath he draws.”

“Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.”

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

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

Years Mind Body Age Science Five Nine Thirty Five Years Forty

Author:Aristotle

“One deed of kindness noticed is worth forty that are told.”

Kindness Deeds Forty

Author:Edgar Guest

“It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.”

Years Littles America Crime Office Dollars Billions Organized Forty Sarcasm Sarcastic Supplies Organized Crime Office Supplies

Author:Woody Allen

“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.”

Ifs Knows Years Comedy Jokes Forty

Author:John Cleese

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

Years Has Beens Funny Past Records Six Witty Forty Cute Funny Years Past

Author:Erica Jong

“No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.”

Anger Forty Outrage Incredulity

Author:Clifford Bax

“Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.”

Men Age Funny Rooms Doors Meaningful Forty Coming Back Inspirational Birthday 40th Birthday Turning 40

Author:Donald Justice

“I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. "Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege."”

“This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its turn, for the discovery of the one following it in its order of distances from the Sun. Thus, at least, we should unhappily soon fall among bodies invisible by reason of their immense distance, but whose orbits might yet be traced in a succession of ages, with the greatest exactness, by the theory of Secular Inequalities.”

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

Ifs World Years Dies This World Fifty Forty Goods

Author:Red Cloud

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

People Enough Wisdom Virtue Advice Ready Vices Islamic Forty Overpowering

Author:Al-Ghazali

“I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.”

Men Way Years Has Beens Play School Used Lines Havens Football High School Holes Nfl Fifty Forty Eleven Best Football

Author:Red Grange

“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.”

Ifs Want Years Wells Littles Long Motivational Business Long Time Excellence Come Up Forty Motivational Business Sprint

Author:Michael Dell

“While still sixteen I am put in charge of a class of forty children who are two, three or four years younger than I. I fall in love with them. They are my possession, my mob whose forty minds, under my flashy and domineering control, are to become one, a mind unsullied by errors, unmarked by blots, contaminated by misplaced originalities outside the curriculum, and as full of facts as a pomegranate seed.”

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

Stills Age Next Father Five Alive Middle Corners Forty Middle Ages

Author:Robert Lowell

“I came across a photograph of him not long ago... his black face, the long snout sniffing at something in the air, his tail straight and pointing, his eyes flashing in some momentary excitement. Looking at a faded photograph taken more than forty years before, even as a grown man, I would admit I still missed him.”

Men Years Long Stills Eye Faces Black Taken Air Dog Photograph Excitement His Eyes Pet Forty Long Ago Tails Pointing Faded Momentary Grown Man Pet Loss Sniffing Dog Loss Lost Dog Black Face

Book:My Dog Skip

Source: My Dog Skip

“I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire to communicate, to organize experience, to tell tales that dramatize the adventures which readers might have had. I have been that ancient man who sat by the campfire at night and regaled the hunters with imaginative recitations about their prowess. The job of an apple tree is to bear apples. The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.”

Source: The World Is My Home: A Memoir

“When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties - before he died in the early forties. They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.”

People Used Speak Player Mets Died Clubs Chess Awe Forty Spokes Manhattan Chess Players Timer Capablanca Old Timers

Author:Bobby Fischer

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

I Can Play Psychology Computer Percent Chess Thirty Forty Playing Chess

Author:Judit Polgar

“About the last thing I ever wanted in life was a knighthood, and even today some forty years after the event, I find it difficult to come to terms with a life where old and valued friends insist on calling me 'Sir' instead of Don, simply because they think it is protocol. But I have consciously shouldered these burdens because I felt that I was the medium through which cricket could achieve a higher status and gain maximum support from the people, not only in Australia but throughout the world.”

“A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.”

Knows Years Kind Funny Friendship Tree Meaningful Forty Shade Finest Counting 60th Birthday 40th Birthday

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“If you're fifty, exercise your mind and body regularly, eat well, and have a general zest for life, you're likely younger - in very real, physical terms - than your neighbor who is forty-four, works in a dead-end job, eats chicken wings twice a day, considers thinking too strenuous, and looks at lifting a beer glass as a reasonable daily workout.”

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

Men Forty Slips Skirts Naughty

Author:Mariella Frostrup

“I had no idea, but I realized that probably thirty to forty percent of my brainpower was taken up with the questions that I couldn't answer- because I had no direction. When I got clear on exactly where I wanted to go, and set the goals to get there, my mind calmed down.”

Inspirational Mind Ideas Wanted Goal Answers Taken Clear Percent I Realized No Idea Thirty Forty

Author:Chip Wilson

“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.”

Inspirational Years Reason Forty Forty Years Old

Book:The Writing Life

Source: The Writing Life

“Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.”

Years Has Beens States Political Lost Liberty Four Citizens Hundred Gun Eight Forty Rome Sparta

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“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?'”

Giving Long Said Remember Hours Half Five Grace Minutes Give Me Forty Five Minutes Vogue

Author:Nicolas Ghesquiere

“The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children - for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him - and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.”

Source: The Letters of Queen Victoria

“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.”

Years Has Beens Would Be Rights Equal Slave Conservative Forty Eighty Equal Rights

Book:Book of Life

Source: Book of Life

“If you feel well and happy, your face will reflect this, but if you are down in the dumps and having a miserable time, your face will soon show this, too. In fact, you get the face you deserve by the time you're forty, and one of the keys to looking and feeling younger is being active.”

Ifs Feels Wells Facts Shows Feelings Faces Keys Deserve Active Miserable Forty Your Face Dump

Book:The Art of Living Well: Looking Good, Feeling Great

Source: The Art of Living Well: Looking Good, Feeling Great

“From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.”

Thinking Years Done Reading Presses Newspapers Forty Falsehood Wretched Daylight Worth Reading

Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816

“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.”

Age Happiness Life Is Youth Periods Old Age Fortunate Generous Enjoyment Forty Sixty Insecure Vigorous Felicity

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty”

Age Idiot Forty Buffoons

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”

“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”

Running Hours Half Five Minutes Tough Train Boxing Forty Hanging Out Five Minutes

Author:Randall Cobb

“I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.”

Knows Men Want Years Band Forty Old Man Pathetic

Author:Steve Coogan

“From my perspective of a guy in his late forties, its becoming more and more clear to me that the right thing to do and the wrong thing to do all depend on what part of life you are looking at it from.”

Guy Clear Perspective Depends Becoming Late Things To Do Right Thing Forty Wrong Things Parts Of Life Becoming More

Author:Eric Bogosian

“A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.”

Men Character Faces Twenties Forty

Book:Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography

Source: Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography

“Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy.”

People Men Whole Males Forty Really Happy Moody Menopause

Author:Rik Mayall

“For a woman, forty is torture, the end.”

Ends Torture Forty

Author:Grace Kelly

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