When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And…

The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in…

— Jack Kerouac

Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm,…

— Leigh Mitchell Hodges

In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole…

— Mike Harding

It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be…

— Rose Macaulay

This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes…

— Dave Barry

I may be forty, but every morning when I get up, I feel like a twenty-year-old. Unfortunately, there's never one around.

— Robert Orben

Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been…

— George Burns

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

— Edward Young

As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that…

— William Osler

I am supremely humbled to receive the 40 Under Forty honor by Stony Brook University in the category of Civil Service and Activism.

— Momina Mustehsan

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

— Patricia Cornwell

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

— Terry Pratchett

I know that some of the folks in the press are uptight about this [moving the press corps out of the West Wing ],…

— Reince Priebus

It's crazy for somebody who's kind of empowered and wealthy like myself to say, "Oh, I don't need to be patronized by the state,…

— Irvine Welsh

I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never…

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson