Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider… — John Legend Copy Share Image
With 'The Forty Rules of Love,' I wanted to write a love story. But I wanted a love story with a spiritual… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Forty million Americans smoked marijuana; the only ones who didn’t like it were Judge Ginsberg, Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a… — Daniela Pestova Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed how many men in the Bible failed in the second half of life? Our enemy is so cunning… — Joseph C. Aldrich Copy Share Image
After a study of some forty years and more of the great religions of the world, I find none so perfect, none… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Atheism in legislation, indifference in matters of religion, and the pernicious maxims which go under the name of Liberal Catholicism are the… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder, I'm an over forty victim… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
I feel very proud that we have managed to stay together. In these forty years we have made forty-six films. Each one… — Ismail Merchant Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
I have so many girlfriends in their twenties who live in a white box apartment, having mediocre meals with mediocre friends, waiting… — Daphne Oz Copy Share Image
Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist. — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Recognise that the free world is at war with Putin, and America is the leader of the free world and should build… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
