In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw.… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and… — Barbara Cartland Copy Share Image
I have spent forty-five years teasing out the universal principles of success that are necessary to create massive breakthroughs. I am committed… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
This is what forty looks like. We've been lying so long, who would know? — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
As indicated by the increase in maternal mortality in 2010, right now it's more dangerous to give birth in California than in… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I spent the first forty years of my life making major interventions into other people's lives, and I have an idea of… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
Thirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
My oldest brother was stabbed thirty to forty times and strangled to death with his own belt when I was eight years… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If an ensemble - I don't care if it's a duet or a forty-piece orchestra - the musicians, the two of them… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I don't love the years going by. I'd just as soon stay forty-five. But it's OK because I feel a whole lot… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Don't be a salary slave! If you are going to do anything in this world, you must start before you are forty,… — Robert Cochrane Copy Share Image
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer… — Sylvia Kristel Copy Share Image
The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
You know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
We all want the chance to express the very best of ourselves and to be challenged to keep reaching for more. Our… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think. — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
