Been Quote by V. S. Naipaul

The more a man writes, the more he can write.

— William Hazlitt

Fifty is the new forty. I always thought my best work would come in the years forty to sixty, if I was fortunate enough…

— Bruce Willis

A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

— Amelia Barr

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

Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and…

— G. Stanley Hall

“I read somewhere that a man should tell the story of his life at the age of forty, and this deadline is fast approaching…

— Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Until he is forty, a man is too young to marry; and after he is forty, he is too old.

— Molly Elliot Seawell

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

— Mary Wilson Little

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

“The difference between fifty and sixty is nothing; the difference between eight and eighteen is more or less a lifetime.”

— Anna Quindlen

“... forty's nothing, at fifty you're in your prime, sixty's the new forty, and so on.”

— Julian Barnes

Life begins at forty.

— Anonymous