To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been…

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

— Margaret Fuller

Unusual precocity in children, is usually the result of an unhealthy state of the brain; and, in such cases, medical men would now direct,…

— Catharine Beecher

I now know that things I always thought I could depend on can crash in an instant. Because of the love that I have…

— Rebecca Wells

I think that if you, as a comedian, are trying to be in people's face, then you've got to come up with new stuff…

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and…

— Donny Osmond

I spent my 40th birthday on the stage of the Palladium in 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.'

— Michael Ball

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

— Arnold Bennett

Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

— Alexander Pope

So OK, it's your special big Four-O birthday But don't expect me to be obsequious and fawning You, being you, can't possibly be a…

— John Walter Bratton

Just short of my 40th birthday, I told my wife, Beth, I was going to build us a little weekend place in...well, in the…

— Patrick Symmes

Just because you're 40, you don't have to decide whether God exists...when you're already worrying that the National Security Agency is reading your emails,…

— Pamela Druckerman

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

— Anonymous

In Hollywood, there is another name for a woman's 40th birthday party, it's a retirement party.

— Artie Lange

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

— Edward Young