Forty Quotes · Page 5

Forty is brilliant and I love it. I'm happier now than when I was 20.

— Richard Hammond

A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

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

I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but…

— Peter Steele

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'm looking forward to being old, to be able to accept what I am and become self-sufficient. Mid-forties is a good age…

— Stella Vine

Please," said Lirael..."I think I would like to work in this Library." "The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous…

— Garth Nix

It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live;…

— Willa Cather

You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

'True Blood' is shot on film. It's more like a movie, and they take more days to shoot it, plus it has…

— Carrie Preston

For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our…

— Susan B. Anthony

It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about…

— Charles Darwin

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

Forty million Americans smoked marijuana; the only ones who didn’t like it were Judge Ginsberg, Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton.

— Jay Leno

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

— Maya Angelou

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with…

— Mary Oliver

There is a prophetic release that occurs in a church or an individual who fasts continually for forty days.

— Jentezen Franklin

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

— Neil Innes

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

— James Russell Lowell

Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.

— Henry Ford

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

— Jan Struther

I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly…

— Steve Coogan

My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.

— Moliere

My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.

— Michael Palin