Forty Quotes · Page 4

For forty years, I've worn the same Azzaro Uomo fragrance.

— Brunello Cucinelli

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

— Edward Young

I'll be dead by the time I'm forty.

— Rod Stewart

My forties are the best time I have ever gone through.

— Elizabeth Taylor

Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her…

— Penelope Gilliatt

A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!

— William Osler

When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.

— David Gemmell

There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers.

— Anonymous

With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“I nearer than I was yesterday and further than I am today, tomorrow I'll be square one.”

— Racquel McDonnell

Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever.

— Virginia Woolf

Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and…

— Edith Sitwell

Sawed off shotgun, hand on the pump Left hand on a forty, puffin' on a blunt Pumped my shotgun, niggas didn't jump...…

— B-Real

Names for bands lose their meaning after a little while. They become a series of sounds that you associate with people in…

— Brian Molko

We're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves With forty hours, television and prescription pills Well, I take two a day to help…

— Conor Oberst

It's an interesting thing to be in your forties and evaluate success and take ownership of some disasters and some pain and…

— Uma Thurman

There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have…

— Harry Reid

Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker,…

— John Lewis

At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle…

— John Travolta

Nothing can be done well at a speed of forty miles a day. The multitude of mixed, novel impressions rapidly piled on…

— John Muir

I write while my son is at school. At about 7:45 A.M., I walk him there, with the dogs, then walk them…

— Geraldine Brooks

It was really sad Bobby Neuwirth's and my affair. The only true, passionate, and lasting love scene, and I practically ended up…

— Edie Sedgwick

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading…

— Doris Lessing

And, now, come to this spot Where the spotlight is hot And you'll see in the spotlight A Juggling Jott Who can…

— Dr. Seuss

Moss grows where nothing else can grow. It grows on bricks. It grows on tree bark and roofing slate. It grows in…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba, in 1870, did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land, but it is to…

— Louis Riel

I never ask if the market is going to go up or down because I don't know, and besides it doesn't matter.…

— John Templeton

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

— Donald Justice

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who…

— Mark Twain

Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.

— Salvador Dali

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his…

— Lenore Coffee

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

— Red Cloud

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

— Robert Frost

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

— Laurence J. Peter

At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.

— Michael Crichton

It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air.

— Terry Pratchett

In my thirties I was doing it, in my forties I was organizing it and now, unfortunately, I can only talk about…

— Cynthia Payne

Forty years ago, the players were like a travelling circus - we went everywhere together and were pretty good friends.

— Rod Laver

Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.

— Robert Benton