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What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter at around forty,… — John Updike
I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I picked up one… — Mother Teresa
It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about their mouths are… — Charles Darwin
I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs. — Nadine Gordimer
A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty. — Mary Wortley Montagu
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the… — Jack Kerouac
Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life. — Ivy Compton-Burnett
Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce… — P.J. O'Rourke
Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is. — Mark Twain
Though the Bible was written over sixteen centuries by at least forty authors, it has one central theme-salvation through faith in Christ. — Max Lucado
The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day. — Nicholas Murray Butler
Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is… — Fred Allen
From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and… — Jules Feiffer
Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious amount… — Walter Russell
Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised… — Mark Twain
The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine. — Aristotle
One deed of kindness noticed is worth forty that are told. — Edgar Guest
I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black. — Henri Matisse
Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past. — Erica Jong
No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage. — Clifford Bax
I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by… — Henri Desgrange
Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to. — Donald Justice
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but… — Earl Warren
This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its… — Unknown Author

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