Quote by Uzma Aslam Khan

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

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

— Victor Hugo

“I am seventy-five years old and I reached this venerable state by staying out of trouble, keeping my mouth shut and not volunteering, just…

— Harry Harrison

“America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil. Before the settlers, before the Indians... the evil was there... waiting.”

— William S. Burroughs

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

— Anonymous

“Forty-four years ago,”

— Edward Klein

“Compared to prehistoric times, ninety is the new forty.”

— Anne Kreamer

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

— Anonymous

Forty isnt old, if youre a tree.

— Anonymous

“But at forty? They had enough appetite to eat well, enough temperance to drink in moderation, and enough wisdom to celebrate the absence of…

— Amor Towles

The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the brevity of…

— Craig Childs

“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