Age Quote by Robert Benchley

Life begins at forty.

— Anonymous

“Forty seemed about right, and it occurred to me that it's too bad for a fella to die at forty, a real shame. It's…

— Stephen King

Life begins at age forty.

— Walter B. Pitkin

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.

— Mae West

“Life doesn't begin at forty, it begins when you are no longer afraid to live it.”

— Peggy Randall-Martin

“Guillam was exhausted. Forty is a difficult age at which to stay awake, he decided. At twenty or at sixty the body knows what…

— John le Carré

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

— Colleen McCullough

The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

— Paul Dickson

I don't feel that 40 is anything these days. Our life expectancy is so much greater that maybe 50 is the new 40.

— Sarah Lancashire

At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.

— Helen Rowland

The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at…

— Siri Hustvedt

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

— Ellen Goodman