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Of course, personally, I think it'd be tacky to wear diamonds before I'm forty. — Holly Golightly
It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be… — Frederick Forsyth
I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me — Pat Mora
I see so many fools in this world that sometimes I could just go home and cry about what people do to themselves Hey, wake… — J. California Cooper
When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again. — Leon Blum
The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head. — Aristide Briand
The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at seventy.… — Siri Hustvedt
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors,… — Tony Hoare
In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire new lands for… — Cecil Rhodes
Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn't only the beauty… — Frank Drake
One of the first things you and your fiance need to develop is a meaningful prayer life even before the wedding. My wife, Shirley, and… — James Dobson
Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of… — John Lewis
Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It… — John Jay Chapman
The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet. — Fred Saberhagen
The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and… — Fred Saberhagen
I can't think of another actor who acquired stardom so quickly, who held it for such a short time, and then kept it for such… — Leonard Maltin
All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve… — Yukio Mishima
Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in… — Cyril Connolly
I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God. — Jane Rule
Over the long term, it's hard for a stock to earn a much better return that the business which underlies it earns. If the business… — Charlie Munger
I could say that all my books were conceived by the time I was twenty, although they were not to be written for another thirty… — Marguerite Yourcenar
I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It makes all the difference in the… — Nancy Johnson
The Pawn move is a capital investment. Every one of the forty-eight should, from the beginning, be spent as if it were one of the… — William Ewart Napier
So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is… — Michel Legrand
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is… — Arthur C. Clarke

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