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I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty… — Henry Ford
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge. — Al-Ghazali
I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have… — Red Grange
If you want to sustain excellence over a long time, you'd better come up with a system that works well. Anyone can sprint for a… — Michael Dell
While still sixteen I am put in charge of a class of forty children who are two, three or four years younger than I. I… — Hal Porter
Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive. — Robert Lowell
I came across a photograph of him not long ago... his black face, the long snout sniffing at something in the air, his tail straight… — Willie Morris
I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire to communicate, to… — James A. Michener
When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because… — Bobby Fischer
Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it — Judit Polgar
About the last thing I ever wanted in life was a knighthood, and even today some forty years after the event, I find it difficult… — Donald Bradman
A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know. — James Russell Lowell
If you're fifty, exercise your mind and body regularly, eat well, and have a general zest for life, you're likely younger - in very real,… — Ken Robinson
I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt. — Mariella Frostrup
I had no idea, but I realized that probably thirty to forty percent of my brainpower was taken up with the questions that I couldn't… — Chip Wilson
One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing… — Ellen Gilchrist
Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have… — Niccolo Machiavelli
I remember Grace (Coddington) looking at me and said, 'Can you do something?' and I was like, 'OK, how long do you give me?' and… — Nicolas Ghesquiere
The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended!… — Queen Victoria
I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years… — Sojourner Truth
From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as… — Thomas Jefferson
Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life,… — Christian Nestell Bovee
I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty — Madonna Ciccone
To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion… — Lewis H. Lapham

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