Forty Quotes

I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.

— Charles Darwin

At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.

— Myrtle Reed

I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty.

— James A. Michener

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.

— Will Rogers

And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.

— Charles Evers

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

— Rudyard Kipling

I saw the sunset forty-four times!

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No one who works a forty hour week will ever beat me.

— Bill Rodgers

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

— Judit Polgar

I'll be clickin' by your house about two forty-five, Sidewalk Sundae Strawberry Surprise.

— Tom Waits

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Don Rickles

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

— Camille Pissarro

I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or…

— M.I.A

You should never trust anyone who listens to Mahler before they're forty.

— Anonymous

If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present…

— Anonymous

I've been a therapist for more than forty years and certainly there is a place for "wise elders" in the healing process.…

— Jed Diamond

One of the first things you and your fiance need to develop is a meaningful prayer life even before the wedding. My…

— James Dobson

Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage…

— Randy Neugebauer

Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the…

— Nikki Haley

The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties…

— Kelly Link

I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar…

— Joni Mitchell

Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit…

— Errol Morris

When I was about twenty-five years of age, Professor Sims informed me that I could sing, but added, 'I would like to…

— Heber J. Grant

You get some sleep, Abigail," Townsend told her. "I'll keep watch." "That's very gracious of you, but being that we're on an…

— Ally Carter

My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made…

— Tyler Perry

I think the whole nostalgia for the forty year gap for [Sylvester] Stallone was bigger than the movie [Creed], but it's good…

— Bun B

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for…

— Jack White

A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness…

— Robert Benchley

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years,…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Unfortunately, the Best Lord had condemned both vehicles as unsafe and instead I now leased a Pack Jeep I called Hector. Equipped…

— Ilona Andrews

If you feel well and happy, your face will reflect this, but if you are down in the dumps and having a…

— Joan Collins

There is a time in our lives, usually in mid-life, when a woman has to make a decision - possibly the most…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.…

— Thomas Jefferson

My writing is of a very different kind from anything I've heard about. All this mythological material is out there, a big…

— Joseph Campbell

Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist,…

— Slavoj Žižek

It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that…

— John Cage

The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered…

— Maya Angelou

If you look at figures, we have a good supply of doctors in Switzerland. They always say that in the future we…

— Pascal Couchepin

“To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray