Best Forty Quotes
746 Forty quotes by 618 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
— Nadine Gordimer
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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
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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
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Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
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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
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Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.
— Mark Twain
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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
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The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
— Nicholas Murray Butler
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.
— Aristotle
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One deed of kindness noticed is worth forty that are told.
— Edgar Guest
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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
— Henri Matisse
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
— Erica Jong
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No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.
— Clifford Bax
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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
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Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.
— Donald Justice
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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
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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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