Forty Quotes · Page 11

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

— Harrison Ford

For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at…

— Edgar Guest

Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of…

— Walter Savage Landor

If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right…

— Tana French

The Forty Rules of Love is a wise, joyous page-turner... and one that speaks urgently to our war-ravaged times.

— Thrity Umrigar

Someone has said that after age forty, each of us pretty much deserves the face he is wearing. He designed it form…

— Sterling W Sill

We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old.

— Hideo Kojima

I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.

— William Shakespeare

Everything has its place and time. We men of the nineteen-forties can smile at the mistakes of the nineteen-thirties, and, in turn,…

— Lin Yutang

I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some…

— S. Truett Cathy

Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You…

— Bill Wyman

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all…

— Newt Gingrich

In the forties, to get a girl you had to be a GI or a jock. In the fifties, to get a…

— Mort Sahl

If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more…

— Malcolm Gladwell

When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know…

— John Cleese

The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other…

— P. J. O'Rourke

When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experiences of nearly forty years at sea, I merely say uneventful. I…

— Edward Smith

There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the…

— Aldo Leopold

It would never occur to me to map my research against events in my life, and the recent history of globalization seems…

— Keller Easterling

There was a point where there was a vision that we'll get to a certain age, and then we'll retire and be…

— Bruce Lipton

If you wish to begin life at forty, you must settle two large personal questions first of all. You must find work…

— Walter B. Pitkin

The reason I love blogs so much right now is that I am seeing more critical voices appear, and that's kind of…

— Jerry Saltz

The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below…

— Rajneesh

I was a closet pacifier advocate. So were most of my friends. Unknown to our mothers, we owned thirty or forty of…

— Erma Bombeck

I have always been a singer/songwriter, and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty.…

— Lisa Marie Presley

Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.

— Yoko Ono

If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.

— Jim Hightower

My parents stayed together for forty years. But that was out of spite.

— Woody Allen

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

— Moliere

I can hit the whiskers on a cat with a football from a distance of forty yards.

— Steve Young

I'm not sure I would have ever decided to try to write when I was forty-five if I hadn't already gotten that…

— Donald Ray Pollock

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

— Patricia Cornwell

Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

— David Koepp

By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.

— George Herbert

I've made forty-three pictures. Naturally I'm adorable in all of them.

— Katharine Hepburn

Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt,…

— Lord Byron

In essence, we're imaging the same cell for anywhere from forty to a hundred thousand times to create one of the movies…

— Eric Betzig

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.

— Sam Levenson

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

— Thomas Browne

Who would you die for? Who would you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even…

— John Green