Forty Years Quotes
162 quotes by 153 authors
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My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.
— Elayne Boosler
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At almost forty years old, I assumed my career on camera was over. And I was certainly given that message by all the TV managers…
— Mika Brzezinski
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When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke,…
— John Cleese
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The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic…
— Fritjof Capra
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My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it. Forty years ago, when I…
— Claude Monet
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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
— Henri Matisse
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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…
— Urbain Le Verrier
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.
— James Russell Lowell
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing…
— Herman Melville
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What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.
— Emile M. Cioran
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In a way, the great thing about Batman is that there are so many of him that you can usually find one you like. Often,…
— Mark Evanier
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