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“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.”

Ifs Men God Night Religion Jesus Feet Fronts He Man Forty

Author:Anne Sexton

“A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!”

Men Rich Wise Aging Thirty Fifty Forty Sane

Book:Osler's

Source: Osler's

“Solomon'sexcess became an insult upon the privileges of mankind; for by the same plan of luxury, which made it necessary to have forty thousand stalls of horses,--he had unfortunately miscalculated his other wants, and so had seven hundred wives.... Wise--deluded man!”

Men Want Made Wise Wife Plans Mankind Thousand Hundred Horse Seven Privilege Luxury Made It Insult Forty Excess Deluded Solomon

Author:Laurence Sterne

“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.”

Years Mean I Can Used Thirty Forty Disorder Episodes Rapids Cycling Manic Depressive

Author:Andy Behrman

“I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never a time thatI questioned it or doubted it.... For forty years, I wanted to jump out of windows.”

Years Wanted Artist Given Trouble Blessing Window Forty Doubted

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“Alas, we are the victims of advertisement. Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty, know how to look after themselves. They know what is concealed beneath the flowers, and what the gossip, the calumnies, and the praise are worth. But as for those who win fame when they are twenty, they know nothing, and are caught up in the whirlpool.”

Knows Looks Joy Winning Know How Youth Flower Sorrow Taste Fame Twenties Praise Victim Caught Forty Gossip Caught Up Alas Concealed Advertisements Calumny Joys And Sorrows Whirlpools

Author:Sarah Bernhardt

“Where the underworld can meet the elite, Forty-Second Street.”

Streets Forty Elites Underworld

Author:Al Dubin

“To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lonely, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. It's forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where there's a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.”

“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty's torch. In football you run over somebody's face.”

Running Faces Liberty Four Feet Missing Football Basketball Court Forty Yards Ninety Torches Dimes Sprint

Author:Donald Hall

“In the early forties and fifties almost everybody "had about enough to live on," and young ladies dressed well on a hundred dollars a year. The daughters of the richest man in Boston were dressed with scrupulous plainness, and the wife and mother owned one brocade, which did service for several years. Display was considered vulgar. Now, alas! only Queen Victoria dares to go shabby.”

Men Years Wells Enough Young Mother Wealth Wife Fashion Daughter Hundred Dollars Dare Queens Forty Display Vulgar Alas Boston Victoria Young Ladies Shabby Wives And Mothers Plainness

Author:M. E. W. Sherwood

“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.”

Ifs Men Forty Vegas Syndicate

Book:The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

“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.”

Thinking Careers Pops Forty Scrap Thinking God

Author:Nick Lowe

“The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work. Many people are aware of these principles, but very few can put them into practice. Every day I hear someone say, 'I'm to fat. I need to lose twenty-five pounds, but I can't. I never seem to improve.' I'd hate myself if I had that kind of attitude, if I were that weak. I can lose ten to forty pounds rapidly, easily, painlessly, by simply setting my mind to it.”

Source: Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder

“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.”

Years Feelings Emotion Painting Paint Satisfied Forty Fury

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.”

People Sometimes Age Wonder Twenties Behave Charm Forty Middle Ages

Author:Mason Cooley

“The higher mental activities are pretty tough and resilient, but it is a devastating experience if the drive does stop. Some people lose it in their forties and can only stop. In England they are a source of Vice-Chancellors.”

People Ifs Doe Loses Source Higher Activity Tough England Vices Forty Resilient

Book:Littlewood's Miscellany

Source: Littlewood's Miscellany

“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.”

Years I Can Grows Watches Authority Forty Nurture

Author:Sy Safransky

“I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with a little age and reflection; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air.”

Ifs Giving Years Wells Littles Made Care Age Young Sides Too Much Air Fine Fit Clothes Reflection Twenties Dresses Fellows Take Care Fifty Forty Excess Awkward Stink Fifty Year Olds

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“How often should a woman be pregnant? Continually, or hardly ever? Or must there be a certain number of pregnancy anniversaries established by fashion? What do you, at the age of forty-three, have to say on the subject? Is it a fact that the laws of nature, or of the country, or of propriety, have ordained this time of life for sterility?”

Should Country Facts Age Law Certain Three Numbers Subjects Fashion Forty Pregnancy Pregnant Laws Of Nature Propriety

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.”

Years Lasts Three Generations Stones Graves Forty Scarce Oaks

Book:The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence

Source: The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence

“Thirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they were then, there was a house well know from Omaha to Denver for its hospitality and for a certain charm of atmosphere.”

Knows Years Wells Book Certain House Years Ago Towns Atmosphere Thirty Charm Forty Grey Hospitality Railroads Denver Omaha

Book:A Lost Lady

Source: A Lost Lady

“It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.”

May Persons Together Past Form Friendship Wonderful Tree Circumstances Woods Curious Intimacy Forty Noticing Congeniality Old Wood

Book:The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

Source: The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

“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.”

Two Mother Father Hours Journey Travel Nine Forty Ohio Two Days Wagons Vermont

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point.”

“Within forty years of their arrival in the Plymouth colony, the first white settlers were afraid their children had lost the dedication and religious conviction of the founding generation. Ever since, Americans have looked to the next generation not only with love and solicitude but with a good measure of anxiety, worrying whether they themselves were good parents, fearful that their children would not turn out well.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.”

Men Heart Age Fifty Forty Stoic Satyrs

Author:Arthur Wing Pinero

“...an imagined town is at least as real as an actual town. If it isn't, you may be in the wrong business. Our words come from obsessions we must submit to, whatever the social cost. It can be hard. It can be worse forty years from now if you feel you could have done it and didn't. It is narcissistic, vain, egotistical, unrealistic, selfish, and hateful to assume emotional ownership of a town or a word. It is also essential.”

Ifs Feels Years May Real Hard Done Social Emotional Cost Essentials Towns Assuming Selfish Obsession Vain Forty Submit Ownership Hateful Narcissistic Our Words Egotistical

Author:Richard Hugo

“The mature, forty-five-year-old woman, quite experienced in matters of life and death, knows that it was 'for the best,' but Daddy's girl, who hung onto his belt and danced fox trots on the tops of his shoes, cannot accept that Daddy is not here anymore.”

Knows Years Matter Death Girl Accepting Five Shoes Five Years Life And Death Forty Mature Hung Foxes Daddy Belts Old Woman Five Year Olds

Author:Mary-Lou Weisman

“There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. This goes for the nonfood items as well: Everything from the toothpaste and cosmetics to the disposable diapers, trash bags, cleansers, charcoal briquettes, matches, and batteries, right down to the shine on the cover of the magazine that catches your eye by the checkout: corn.”

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“Sometimes when something really works well, it becomes a target, forty years for me, I've been a part, and I've loved every minute of it. My family has done so well with it. It's been a beautiful thing for me. I've saved lives with it and saved my own life several times. Through my loss of my son, it helped me every step of the way for two years solid, and here I am.”

Way Life Years Wells Two Sometimes Done Beautiful My Own Loss Steps Minutes Son My Family Saved Forty Two Years Target My Son Beautiful Things My Own Life Every Step Here I Am

Author:John Travolta

“A close friend of mine, Annie Leibovitz, who I've known for forty years, photographs celebrities every single day of the week but they all seem to look the same even though she's one of the most creative photographers alive. They all just look the same. Brad Pitt is a great actor but all the pictures of Brad Pitt look the same.”

Years Looks Seems Actors Known Creative Alive Week Mines Photographer Photograph Forty Close Friends Great Actors Brad Annie Days Of The Week

Author:Lawrence Schiller

“It was really sad Bobby Neuwirth's and my affair. The only true, passionate, and lasting love scene, and I practically ended up in the psychopathic ward. I had really learned about sex from him, making love, loving, giving. It just completely blew my mind it drove me insane. I was like a sex slave to this man. I could make love for forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, without getting tired. But the minute he left me alone, I felt so empty and lost that I would start popping pills.”

“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.”

Light Remember Hours Watches Land Miles Lovely Flight Noses Aviation Forty Engines Tails

Book:The RAINBOW and the ROSE

Source: The RAINBOW and the ROSE

“If you had asked me when I was 28 and in my wedding dress if I ever thought I would end up in my forties flipping my husband the bird over potato chips, I'd say you were crazy.”

Ifs Ends Crazy Husband Bird Dresses Forty My Husband Chips Potatoes Potato Chips Wedding Dress

Author:Jenna McCarthy

“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.”

People Years Book Games Cases Forty Thrones Overnight Success

Author:George R. R. Martin

“When I was very young, I started to make friends with much, much older people. So when I was twenty, my friends were fifty, and I never really went through forty because I would watch them die and I would feel younger. So you make friends with older people and you will always feel young no matter what.”

People Feels Matter Young Dies Watches My Friends Twenties No Matter What Fifty Forty Older People

Author:Judd Apatow

“Every morning I'd have coffee with my wife and we would discuss ideas. Sixty percent of what I did for the stores was concepts. The other forty percent was correcting and cleaning up other concepts in house, or doing final art on my concepts. Most of my concepts were so finished they could turn them over to somebody else.”

Art Ideas Turns House Morning Wife Percent Concepts Finals My Wife Finished Stores Coffee Forty Sixty Every Morning Cleaning Correcting Cleaning Up

Author:Mike Royer

“Forty percent of my ideas came from my wife.”

Ideas Wife Percent My Wife Forty

Author:Mike Royer

“I felt, as a lawyer, when I was mentoring and working with kids, that I gained a level of groundedness that I just couldn't get sitting on the forty-seventh floor of a fancy firm. Selfishly, it gives me joy - it makes me feel like my life has a purpose.”

Giving Feels Kids Joy Purpose Felt Levels Sitting Give Me Lawyer Firm Fancy Forty Mentoring Groundedness

Author:Michelle Obama

“I spent the first forty years of my life making major interventions into other people's lives, and I have an idea of the limitations of that method. I see a major event as rather like major surgery. It is a moment, but whether people use it, whether people go with it, needs to be seen.”

People Needs Years Firsts Ideas Moments Use Events Majors Method Limitation Forty Surgery Intervention

Author:Rachel Naomi Remen

“Many people are despairing of the possibility of finding love. And some of the people who are despairing the most are in their thirties and forties and looking just great.”

People Possibility Findings Forty Finding Love

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Since so many people these days don't seem to start their families until around age forty, I predict there will be less child beating, but more slipped disks from lifting babies out of cribs. Even the father of advanced age who's not inclined to spare the rod is likely to suffer more than his victim: The first punch he throws might well be the last straw for his rotator cuff, reducing his disciplinary options to mere verbal abuse and napping.”

Source: The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee

“I suddenly became aware over the last couple of years that I'm in my sixties. I never thought about it. I thought I'd better start acting my age or find roles that are going to be interesting to me in the sexagenarian repertoire, because it's not what you do in your forties or fifties.”

Years Age Lasts Interesting Acting Roles Couple Forty Sixty

Author:Geoffrey Rush

“I came to teaching late - not until my forties - which is one reason why I'm not burned out.”

Reason Teaching Late Reason Why Forty Burned Burned Out

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“I don't know if this is a true statistic, but I heard somewhere that there are three times as many single women over forty as single men. That's what we got from the women's movement. The chickens have come home to roost.”

Ifs Knows Men Home Three Heard Movement Forty Chickens Coming Home Three Times Single Man Single Women Roost

Author:Jack Nicholson

“I have lived in one house in Baltimore for nearly forty-five years. It has changed in that time, as I have - but somehow it still remains the same. No conceivable decorator's masterpiece could give me the same ease. It is as much a part of me as my two hands. If I had to leave it I'd be as certainly crippled as if I lost a leg.”

Ifs Giving Years Stills Two Hands House Lost Five Changed Give Me Remains Legs Ease Five Years Forty Masterpiece Crippled Baltimore Two Hands Decorators

Author:H. L. Mencken

“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.”

Years Sometimes Wisdom Faces Young Hopeful Forty Seventies Cheerful New Faces Forty Years Old Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.”

Knows Men Success Plans Fool Aging Reform Thirty Forty Suspects Mortality Procrastination

Author:Edward Young

“What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius? Where are the forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts burned in France, by order of another pope, because suspected of heresy? Remember the 'index expurgatorius', the inquisition, the stake, the axe, the halter and the guillotine.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.”

Two Religion Atheism England Atheist Forty Sauce Anti Religious Two Religions

Author:Voltaire