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In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted. — Patricia Cornwell
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. — Stendhal
There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. — Don Van Vliet
A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that… — Malcolm Muggeridge
But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months advance… — Daniel Barenboim
The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not… — Arnold Bennett
I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement… — Camille Pissarro
One nice thing about the Third World, you don't have to fasten your seat belt. (Or stop smoking. Or cut down on saturated fats.) It… — P.J. O'Rourke
In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous… — George S. Patton
Me and Paul (Dean) will probably win forty games (they won forty-nine). — Dizzy Dean
Normal relations, never. We should never forget what has happened to the people in Cuba for forty years. All baseball cares about is getting players… — Luis Tiant
...but highly placed sources within the Kennedy Administration disagreed: "[T]he assumption that the strategic nuclear balance mattered in any way was wrong... As far as… — Robert McNamara
It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This… — Duke of Wellington
But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating… — John Cornyn
What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of… — Caspar David Friedrich
A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous!… — Cannonball Adderley
Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked… — Peter Benchley
Chirren [children] is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two. — Walter Mosley
The heavens were the grandstands and only the gods were spectators. The stake was the world, the forfeit was the player's place at the table,… — Unknown Author
Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an… — Stefan Zweig
Speaking of earning, the revered 40-hour workweek is for losers. Forty hours should be considered the minimum, not the maximum. You don't see highly successful… — Neal Boortz
Won't the new 'Suggested for Mature Audience' protect our youngsters from such films? I don't believe so. I know many forty-five-year old men with the… — Shirley Temple
Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk. — Michael Parkinson
If I give you a forty five percent chance at lethal injection, a fifty percent chance at the electric chair, and a five percent chance… — Michael Badnarik
After forty years of intensive research on school learning in the United States as well as abroad, my major conclusion is: What any person in… — Benjamin Bloom

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