Top 100 Quotes About Forties
#1. I've been embracing the red lip and just wearing it every day, not just for going out. And I get so many compliments on it. I love the Julie Hewett Rouge Noir: it's sort of a forties red.
Stephanie March
#2. Health and understanding seem to intersect in one's forties, the one peaking as the other begins its slow ascent. Maybe you'll know one day what you should've taken the time to appreciate.
Hugh Howey
#3. Once you get to your forties or fifties in this society, very few people haven't had at least one body blow - financial, bankruptcy, divorce, relationship disaster, addiction, trouble with a child, trouble with a parent. Most people take some blow.
Marianne Williamson
#4. True home of a generation of completely uninhibited technophiles. She was talking about those odds and ends of "futuristic" Thirties and Forties architecture you pass daily in American cities without noticing;
William Gibson
#5. I drink twenty forties, smoke forty blunts,
Say a hundred rhymes, and not sound like you once.
Dres
#6. Towards the end of his life he became a Liberal of the type common in the forties and fifties.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#7. My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become the imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test.
Ellen Goodman
#8. I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.
Steve Coogan
#9. weak-chinned balding man in his late forties wearing a department-store suit and a mackintosh coat. He was the sort of man that young women instinctively avoided
Daniel Silva
#10. Being involved and hanging out with my brothers who skate is really amazing, especially because of our age. I mean, we're in our mid-late forties and we're still skateboarding in competitions. Who'd have ever thought?
Christian Hosoi
#11. It was an odd coincidence that my career took off the same decade as having babies. I often wished it had been different, that I had my big career bump in my thirties and my babies in my forties or vice versa.
Jane Kaczmarek
#12. In the forties, to get a girl you had to be a GI or a jock. In the fifties, to get a girl you had to be Jewish. In the sixties, to get a girl you had to be black. In the seventies, to get a girl you've got to be a girl.
Mort Sahl
#13. The years the couple have together are a shared conclusion to lives separately built, separately lived. There is no use wondering what might have happened if the man had met her in his forties, or in his twenties. He would not have married her then.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#14. I suddenly became aware over the last couple of years that I'm in my sixties. I never thought about it. I thought I'd better start acting my age or find roles that are going to be interesting to me in the sexagenarian repertoire, because it's not what you do in your forties or fifties.
Geoffrey Rush
#15. But from here on
I want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening
-from A Woman Dead in Her Forties
Adrienne Rich
#16. As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
Gary Oldman
#17. Everything has its place and time. We men of the nineteen-forties can smile at the mistakes of the nineteen-thirties, and, in turn, the men of the nineteen-fifties will laugh at the mistakes of the nineteen-forties. It is this historical perspective that shall save us.
Lin Yutang
#18. The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent, socially ungainly and politically gauche, but with some hint of promise.
Simon Schama
#19. If you had asked me when I was 28 and in my wedding dress if I ever thought I would end up in my forties flipping my husband the bird over potato chips, I'd say you were crazy.
Jenna McCarthy
#20. One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him.
Clive James
#21. You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.
Harrison Ford
#22. I'm looking forward to being old, to be able to accept what I am and become self-sufficient. Mid-forties is a good age and it's not too far away.
Stella Vine
#23. I don't know how we're going to have this baby because I'm in my forties and I can't even remember my first son's name. But I'm going to have another baby because I'm feeling good.
Sherri Shepherd
#24. Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
Salvador Dali
#25. When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. I'd become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.
Byron Katie
#26. It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.
Henry Miller
#27. My father was among the first of his generation to look into writers who've become part of the American lit. canon. When he wrote his master's thesis on William Faulkner in the Forties, he couldn't find anybody on the faculty at Columbia University to oversee it because they didn't read Faulkner.
Antonya Nelson
#28. Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.
Geoffrey Rush
#29. At some point in my early forties I realized that my primary goal in just about any verbal exchange is to lighten the mood.
Meghan Daum
#30. From my perspective of a guy in his late forties, its becoming more and more clear to me that the right thing to do and the wrong thing to do all depend on what part of life you are looking at it from.
Eric Bogosian
#31. In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.
Patricia Cornwell
#32. Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.
Jerry Saltz
#33. The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.
Jerry Saltz
#34. It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that actors begin their prime in their forties or fifties, and for women it's so different. I think it's time to change that. Aging is a beautiful thing.
Michiel Huisman
#35. The higher mental activities are pretty tough and resilient, but it is a devastating experience if the drive does stop. Some people lose it in their forties and can only stop. In England they are a source of Vice-Chancellors.
John Edensor Littlewood
#36. I have so many girlfriends in their twenties who live in a white box apartment, having mediocre meals with mediocre friends, waiting for the life they want to hit them in their forties or fifties. They are settling in the now - what's the point?
Daphne Oz
#37. Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?
Aldous Huxley
#38. Lao Yang told him that sixty, like sixteen, was the best time in life, an age where the burdens of one's forties and fifties had been laid down, but the slowdown and illness of the seventies and eighties had not yet arrived.
Liu Cixin
#39. The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.
Kelly Link
#40. Suddenly, I was thirty, very unhappy entertaining people in their forties, and here came a group of people in their teens and twenties who had similar anti-authority problems and similar dreams and wishes, hopes for mankind. So I gravitated toward them.
George Carlin
#41. Dave Chappelle is about as gifted as it gets, as a performer and comedian.It's always great to watch him work. He started around fourteen and he's in his forties now, so he's probably been doing it for close to thirty years. He's brilliant.
Ted Alexandro
#42. Author's Warning
If you're buying this book as a gift for your grandma or a kid, you should be aware that it contains cusswords as well as tasteful depictions of cannibalism and people in their forties having sex. Don't blame me. I told you.
Christopher Moore
#43. Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.
Thomas Sowell
#44. I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.
Joan Cusack
#45. I feel like a nineteen forties teenager at a Frank Sinatra concert! (On finally being published)
Katrina D. Miller
#46. Before I was in my forties. If you're still doing this
Meg Jay
#47. In my twenties, I was obsessed with what other people thought of me. In my thirties, it's about my children, my husband, my work. In my forties, it's going to be about me, and I shan't care what anyone else thinks. I can't wait!
Jasmine Guinness
#48. Unmarried women in their forties, with false teeth and tousled hair, aren't usually held in the highest esteem by our society. The feeling seemed to be that if I could be a success then anyone could!
Susan Boyle
#49. The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.
H.L. Mencken
#50. I thought about how, at twenty-six, I shouldn't have to floss yet, who wants to be bothered! I didn't even have the energy left over for flossing. I mean, how many things was I supposed to do? Flossing should only be done by people in their forties.
Chrissi Sepe
#51. In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
Wayne Grady
#53. You know, I really enjoy longevity. I see actors in their forties and they just turn out these really fabulous roles and characters. You know who they are, but you wouldn't necessarily know their names.
Kelly Reilly
#54. As we reach midlife in the middle thirties or early forties, we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don't hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties.
Gail Sheehy
#55. In my teens my drug of choice was acceptance, in my twenties it was approval, in my thirties it was love, in my forties it was Scotch. That lasted a while,' she admitted. 'Now all I really crave is a good bowel movement.
Louise Penny
#57. Many people are despairing of the possibility of finding love. And some of the people who are despairing the most are in their thirties and forties and looking just great.
Marianne Williamson
#58. Holly starts to cry. Jerome hugs her clumsily. He's black and she's white, he's seventeen and she's in her forties, but to Hodges Jerome looks like a father comforting his daughter after she came home from school and said no one invited her to the Spring Dance.
Stephen King
#59. My thirties merged into my forties, and I sort of gradually realised that I don't really want children. Now I'm glad I don't have them. Part of that is because I have my books.
Michelle Paver
#60. I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style.
Vincent Cassel
#61. I don't know why people eat so badly. I could eat pasta all the time, but it really is fattening. And I love ice cream, but I can't do that. There was a time, until I was in my mid-forties, when I could eat a whole pizza - and really, no effect.
Christopher Walken
#62. In my twenties, I was determined to change the world. In my thirties, I tried to transform the church. In my early forties, I discovered I was the problem.
Jeff Iorg
#63. When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.
Billy Bob Thornton
#64. I think I would have done very well as a writer in the Forties. I think the last time America was a great country was then or not long after. It was before Vietnam, before Watergate.
Aaron Sorkin
#65. Though to be fair, "I live with my mother" is not the sexiest thing a man in his mid-forties can say.
Marshall Thornton
#66. Leave it to a vampire to think a healthy guy in his late thirties or early forties was on his deathbed.
MaryJanice Davidson
#67. Thenardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife.
Victor Hugo
#68. To be a woman in your forties, I think it's a fantastic decade.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#69. Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013.
Stefan Sagmeister
#70. say, I'll be right back. When, in her forties, she looks at her hands and doesn't recognise them as her
Brooke Davis
#71. Certainly I was a bully. I'm not ashamed of it at all. The hostility of the establishment to what you were able to do in the Forties and Fifties was very strong. Sometimes you have to fight against your society.
Pierre Boulez
#72. As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#73. My grandmother studied medicine in the Forties, which was very rare in Egypt, and my mother was a university professor, so my idea of religion wasn't about a woman not working or having to dress in a certain way; it was more to do with the faith.
Leila Aboulela
#74. Perhaps I'd been a slow developer, but I was well into my forties before I realized that you don't have to comply with a request just because it's reasonable or reasonably put. Age is the great dis-obliger. You can be yourself and say no.
Ian McEwan
#75. People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.
Oscar Hijuelos
#76. I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'
Helen McCrory
#77. It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#78. If she were human, I'd judge her to be in her mid-forties. That didn't sit in a negative column with her, though, because she gave off a smoldering, ripe sensuality that made youth look like a boring waste of time.
Jeaniene Frost
#79. In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.
John Malkovich
#80. The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other things in your forties but generally your wife makes you stop them, as Bill Clinton found out.
P. J. O'Rourke
#81. Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman ...
Victor Hugo
#82. When you're in your twenties, someone once wrote, you live to please other people. When you're in your thirties, you get tired of trying to please others, so you get miffed with them for making you worry about it. When you're in your forties, you realize nobody was thinking about you anyway.
John Ortberg Jr.
#83. When I was growing up in the Forties and Fifties, you could hide your children from the difficulties of life, but today you can't separate children's contact with the adult world today.
Michael Morpurgo
#84. One thing I feel clear about is that it's important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven't really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won't look back upon my forties with regret.
Irvin D. Yalom
#85. This used to be my drug of choice. In my teens my drug of choice was acceptance, in my twenties it was approval, in my thirties it was love, in my forties it was Scotch.
Louise Penny
#86. In the forties [1940s] in Washington it was still unusual for a rich and socially well-connected married woman to work. If she did, her husband was assumed by his peers to be unable to support a household on his own and somehow to be inadequate.
David Brinkley
#87. There are lesbians, God knows ... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York ... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.
Audre Lorde
#88. Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.
Pete Seeger
#89. Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant.
Marcia Cross
#90. It was uncertain. She was in her early forties. Breast cancer. No one could identify exactly how everyone had come to know this fact. Was it a fact? Some people called it rumor. But in fact there was no such thing as rumor. There was fact, and there was what did not come up in conversation.
Joshua Ferris
#91. Certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
Erica Jong
#92. Because it is so hard, some people wait until they are in their thirties, forties, fifties, or even older before breaking their silence.
Erin Merryn
#93. 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 Thelonious Monk
John Lewis
#94. In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels.
John Charles Pollock
#95. In my thirties I was doing it, in my forties I was organizing it and now, unfortunately, I can only talk about it.
Cynthia Payne
#96. In my grandfather's day, there was a different perspective on war and men that went into war; it was such a patriotic act to fight for your country in the Forties.
Ashton Holmes
#97. I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that.
Kit Harington
#98. My last kids were born when I was in my forties, so I still had little kids around me, which gave me the illusion of feeling younger.
Frank Langella
#99. It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.
Jane Wiedlin
#100. Teracia was a tatted former client in her forties that had met the love of her life thanks to Gerri. She was Gerri's first attempt at matchmaking.
Milly Taiden
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