Forty Quotes · Page 2

Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

— Aldo Leopold

Forty-seven years -- and I find I mind it less and less.

— Louise Andrews Kent

Forty percent of my ideas came from my wife.

— Mike Royer

A forty and a blunt, that's all she really wants.

— Grand Puba

My mother was widowed twice before she turned forty.

— John Hickenlooper

One deed of kindness noticed is worth forty that are told.

— Edgar Guest

Why one Ad is worth more to a paper than 40 Editorials.

— Will Rogers

A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for…

— Elayne Boosler

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

— Terry Pratchett

Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand...

— Mother Teresa

Once you pass forty, a dime isn't worth bending over to pick up if you drop one.

— Andy Rooney

It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and…

— Jane Wiedlin

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with…

— Charlie Sheen

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

Live with a man forty years. Share his house, his meals, speak on every subject. Then tie him up and hold him…

— Anonymous

Though the Bible was written over sixteen centuries by at least forty authors, it has one central theme-salvation through faith in Christ.

— Max Lucado

If I hear a conversation and somebody says something intriguing, my first thought is, 'Is that a song?' I write all year…

— Toby Keith

I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there…

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government…

— Mike Pence

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man…

— Alexander Pope

But I know what I like.' She smiled, and et the cat drop to the floor. 'It's like Tiffany's,'she said. 'Not that…

— Truman Capote

There were the days when women were under contract, and they were thought of as a commodity, so they hired the best…

— Sally Field

I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I found the place where I was beaten bloody forty years earlier and dragged to jail and that made me cry. When…

— Bill Ayers

Liberal hostility to the traditional family helped to undermine centuries of accumulated wisdom and experience about what was best for children and…

— Mona Charen

If it were true that Christianity and science were incompatible, there would be no Christians who were respected scientists. If fact, about…

— Jeffrey Burton Russell

The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but…

— Rahm Emanuel

My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here…

— Ani DiFranco

I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in…

— William J. Clinton

My father's life was changed right before my eyes [when he trusted Christ]. It was like someone reached down and switched on…

— Josh McDowell

Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You…

— Mark Twain

This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had…

— Mark Twain

Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape.…

— Douglas Adams

I invited a few people to help celebrate your birthday," Cameron said sheepishly. She threw up her hands. "Surprise." "We sort of…

— Julie James

Because my parents were American missionaries who sent me to public schools in rural Japan, I had to confront Hiroshima as a…

— Linda Hoaglund

Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn…

— Oliver Goldsmith

The ultimate cause of the October Crisis was the ideological embrace of Milton Friedman's warped but still dominant view that "the only…

— Chip Pitts