Forty Quote by Anonymous

“Sixty-four has a way of forgetting what twenty-one was like.”

— Stephen King

“Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“twenty-five years run around so quickly but thirty one years is a long time.”

— Gertrude Stein

“I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“How short lived knowledge is. When I was 20 I knew it all: now at 70 I can’t understand a thing”

— Anonymous

“...every period of life has its necessities, and at forty-seven it's just as well to trust a little to the head.”

— James Fenimore Cooper

“I was staring down thirty-five in a few months. While I might have thought forty was old when I was her age, I’d since…

— Marshall Thornton

“Sometimes twenty years seemed like an instant, and sometimes it seemed like a very long time indeed.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“Life was long, unless you died, and he didn’t intend to spend the next sixty years talking about the last twenty-two.”

— Chad Harbach

“You are as old as you feel. So I reckon I'm about sixty.”

— Jo Nesbø

“...although I'm eighty years old, I still consider myself a student. ... Every day learning, learning.”

— Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams

“How could I possibly know what I wanted, when I was only twenty-one?”

— Sinead O'Conner