Top 100 Quotes About Forty
#1. My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.
Robert B. Parker
#2. I hope the Canada Pops can play in E and A. I do 'Forty Days' and 'Bo Diddley'. I don't change songs, just bands.
Ronnie Hawkins
#3. When Brittany walks into Mrs. P.'s class on Friday I'm still thinking about how I'm going to get back at her for throwing my keys into the woods last weekend. It took me forty-five minutes to find the suckers, and all the while I was cursing Brittany. Okay, so I give her props for dishing it out.
Simone Elkeles
#4. Kit, you're forty. You look thirty. You act ... well, never mind. You're carrying on like you think you're seventy
Josh Lanyon
#5. Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it
Judit Polgar
#6. And isn't it actually unbelievable that one simple name encompasses all of this? The fetus in the belly, the infant on the changing table, the forty-year-old in front of the computer, the old man in the chair, the corpse on the bench?
Karl Ove Knausgard
#7. We been in this house forty year," he said. "Bought it back in nineteen and forty-three for four thousand dollar. Bet you never heard of a house that cheap. Now it's worth one hunnert and fifteen thousand. Just the lot we're settin' on. That don't even count the house. They can knock
Sue Grafton
#8. It's a combination, I think they want to know - it's for every show, which is I think networks want to know that you have a vision for where the show could go to make sure that it really is a show, that it's not just a one-off forty minute pilot, that it's an actual series.
Bryan Burk
#9. So," said Ruth, "how bad is it?" "You haven't read it?" "Not all of it." "Well," I said, politely, "it needs some work." "How much?" The words "Hiroshima" and "nineteen forty-five" floated briefly into my mind. "It's fixable," I said, which I suppose it was: even Hiroshima was fixed eventually.
Robert Harris
#10. The most important lesson that we're supposed to be learning right now is how completely lost we are without God. If we don't learn this lesson, then our lives are going to have zero meaning. (Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality)
Brian "Head" Welch
#11. But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
Jane Austen
#12. Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.
Gabrielle Zevin
#13. After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.
Enid Bagnold
#14. Forty states have sued tobacco companies over the costs of health care for residents on Medicaid and public assistance.
Bill Dedman
#15. I feel very proud that we have managed to stay together. In these forty years we have made forty-six films. Each one has brought a certain name and contribution to cinema.
Ismail Merchant
#16. Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.
Mark Twain
#17. Five and forty steps the sky will burn. Fire approaching the large new city. Instantly a great thin flame will leap, when someone will want to test the Normans.
Nostradamus
#18. That anonymous coward is probably forty years old with raging BO and still living in his mum's granny flat
Gabrielle Tozer
#19. Twenty-two hours, forty-seven minutes, and eighteen seconds to go!
Shannon Hale
#20. There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of forty percent or more.
Harry Reid
#21. My mother and father are still together after forty something years. I lived in one place till I was 6. I lived in another place from when I was 6 till I was 17.
Janet McTeer
#22. Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature
Anita Brookner
#23. Throughout my life, there has always been a number that sounded old. When I was sixteen, it was twenty-seven; at twenty-nine, it was forty-two; at thirty-eight, it was fifty-two. At sixty-five, however, it was sixty-five.
Mark Jacobson
#24. Lesson for young men: if you want your eventual wife to be excited about sucking your dick for forty years, don't create a generation of women who think enthusiasm about sex is a bad thing.
Anna Kendrick
#25. The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet.
Fred Saberhagen
#26. I told myself that it took forty-two facial muscles to frown and only four to stretch out my arm and bitch-slap the witch.
Kathy Lette
#27. Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least.
Charles Wiley
#28. Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries of life, than a single proprietor possessing a hundred thousand a year.
Thomas Malthus
#30. When I was nineteen years old, I was the number-one star for two years. When I was forty, nobody wanted me. I couldn't get a job.
Mickey Rooney
#31. They're all about forty, I'd guess, but they could pass for thirty in that way that handsome gay men can seemingly defy the basic rules of nature.
Matthew Norman
#32. The city is physical, concrete," Pedro [da Luz] said. "When we make a mistake, it is a mistake that will last for forty, fifty years. That's a problem.
Juliana Barbassa
#33. If you're playing live, I like to think of the ensemble, whether it's the duet or a forty piece orchestra, as one person. And the entire audience, whether it's twelve people or twelve thousand at Madison Square Garden, is the other person. The two of you are going to dance together tonight.
John Densmore
#34. You will wake up at forty with no husband, no children, and no career if you don't learn to engage with the world.
Lauren Kate
#35. Forty-eight frames per second is a way, way better way to look at 3D. It's so much more comfortable on the eyes.
Peter Jackson
#36. My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.
Andy Van Slyke
#37. Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes with a price. Forty years wandering through the desert. Or incurring the wrath of two very pissed-off parents.
Gayle Forman
#38. I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never a time thatI questioned it or doubted it ... For forty years, I wanted to jump out of windows.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#39. She introduced herself to me as Ray's wife. I was only mildly surprised to realize that Ray had this pleasant-looking matron for a partner, a little glassy-eyed, tagged by forty years of marriage like a dead deer on a car roof.
Keith Hollihan
#40. It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live; and if at forty one can still take Rastignac and Lucien de Rubempre at Balzac's own estimate, one has lived in vain.
Willa Cather
#41. There's shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a man never should reason away.
Ken Kesey
#42. For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety. But maybe this is good-I have never the time to get myself bored.
Marcel Tabuteau
#43. It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.
Robert Thurman
#44. And I never started to plow in my life
That some one did not stop in the road
And take me away to a dance or picnic.
I ended up with forty acres;
I ended up with a broken fiddle
And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories,
And not a single regret.
Edgar Lee Masters
#45. Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.
Allen Neuharth
#46. Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.
Michael Parkinson
#47. In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.
John Edward Williams
#48. She glanced over her shoulder to look at the forty-foot cabin cruiser where Captain Tarwater posed on the bow looking like an advertisement for a particularly rigid laundry detergent - Bumstick Go-Be-Bright, perhaps
Christopher Moore
#49. You do not know the dishonest purposes of these men as well as I do," Douglas told Lincoln of the secessionists. "If I were president, I'd convert or hang them all within forty-eight hours.
Scott Farris
#50. Yes, September, We have all of us got it jumbled up. You never feel so grown up as when you are eleven, and never so young and unsure as when you are forty. That is why time is a rotten jokester and no one aught to let him in to dinner.
Catherynne M Valente
#51. My father is an old man, my lord. Well past forty. His fighting days are done.
George R R Martin
#52. Among the seventy-three teachers who responded, scores ranged from 50 to 96! Just as Starch and Elliott found a century earlier, scores varied by more than forty-five percentage points - and that's among teachers who received specific professional development in writing assessment!
Thomas Guskey
#53. If we publicly declare that Cuba is a threat to our security, forty million Mexicans will die laughing.
Antonio Carrillo Flores
#54. If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#55. And finally, my gratitude to UM 006, H, Mr. Blank, Ben, the big guy in the sweatpants, and the owners of the forty heads. You are dead, but you're not forgotten.
Mary Roach
#56. They claim there's a rationale for the children, don't they, sir?"
"Yes. Those babes in arms will grow up and want revenge on the Nazis in about 1963. I suppose the rationale for the women under forty-five is that they might be pregnant. And the rationale for the older women is while we're at it.
Martin Amis
#57. When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright.
Henry Rollins
#58. I read somewhere that a man should tell the story of his life at the age of forty, and this deadline is fast approaching as I write these lines, only a few short weeks remain before this ominous birthday arrives.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#59. The thing no one understood about Gwendolyn Reese was that she was three ages at once: thirty chronologically, forty-five intellectually and fifteen experientially.
Marilyn Brant
#60. I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.
Harry Truman
#61. It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes
until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway,
critics claimed, was a genius. Was it his genius that drove
him to work hard, or was it hard work that resulted in works
of genius?
James N. Frey
#62. Are we going to get out of here, do you think?" "Oh, they'll have to release us sooner or later. Prisoners of war, which is how they must be classifying us, have to be released at the end of hostilities. There are international rules. I was a prisoner of war before, nearly forty years ago.
Lucy Beckett
#63. Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!
Errol Morris
#64. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour).
Vladimir Nabokov
#65. I know forty-one is the new eighteen, but tell that to my metabolism.
Marian Keyes
#66. It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.
Jerome K. Jerome
#67. I'm pissed at myself. I just spent forty-five minutes Googling my ex-girlfriends and ex-crushes. That's just information I don't need ... This is an unhealthy addiction ... a waste of my time and brain space.
A. J. Jacobs
#68. A lack of resources may slow you down, but don't let it make you throw away a big idea. Give God five years, ten years, fifteen years, twenty years, twenty-five years, thirty years, forty years, or more. Give God all the time He needs to bring the resources to you!
Robert H. Schuller
#69. I was in the Chilli Peppers at the time and I asked myself, would I be able to wear a sock on my genitals at the age of forty and they proved me wrong because I guess they're still doing it.
Cliff Martinez
#70. The distance from the surface of Earth to the middle is 6,370 kilometres, which isn't so very far. It has been calculated that if you sunk a well to the centre and dropped a brick down it, it would take only forty-five minutes for it to hit the bottom
Bill Bryson
#71. It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.
Jan Struther
#72. For a woman, forty is torture, the end.
Grace Kelly
#74. They are clean, dressed and coiffed neatly, and seem serene. They look and act like "normal" shoppers, gamblers, dawdlers, and visitors, but "they" are solo homeless women - mainly over forty years of age and surprisingly well educated - who blend into polite society.
Marjorie Bard
#75. The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
Colleen McCullough
#76. I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.
Mark Twain
#77. Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.
Jerry Seinfeld
#78. The Joker as sadistic chaos, the Batman as merciless order. This mirror-image theme would come to define the two characters' relationship in the comics and across all media for the next forty years.
Glen Weldon
#79. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time. For forty years I saw myself through John's eyes. I did not age.
Joan Didion
#80. And Flying Changes. Her works have been translated into forty-three languages and have
Sara Gruen
#81. If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.
Amos Oz
#82. It takes forty muscles to frown, and only twelve to jam a cupcake in your mouth and get over it.
Sarah Ockler
#83. I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.
Larry David
#84. Forty-two percent of all that was produced in the world was produced in the United States. America made 80 percent of the world's movies and 85 percent of its cars.
Bill Bryson
#85. Defend what's left. You can have fifty men."
"Fifty! That's not enough ... "
"Forty," I snarled, "and if you lose the fort I'll cut your kidneys out and eat them."
We were at war.
Bernard Cornwell
#86. Little by little a person reaches forty and fifty and sixty, and feels more complete. God could've thrown full blown prophets flying through the cosmos in an instant.
Coleman Barks
#87. One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!"
And a little later you added:
"You know
one loves the sunset, when one is so sad ... "
"Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?"
But the little prince made no reply.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#88. There have been more people saved in the past twenty, thirty, or forty years around the world than at any other time in recorded church history.
Michael Brown
#89. Moses spent forty years in the king's palace thinking that he was somebody; then he lived forty years in the wilderness finding out that without GOD he was a nobody; finally he spent forty more years discovering how a nobody with GOD can be a somebody.
Dwight L. Moody
#90. I walked, floated, lighter - forty miles, my biggest day yet. I'd lifted the burden of guilt and shame off my body. I held my new hard-won wisdom, the gift three months of walking in the wilderness had carried me to: compassion for my younger self - forgiveness for my innocence.
Aspen Matis
#91. 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 free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.
Sojourner Truth
#92. Himself almost being torn in half as he was yanked out of the jeep on the end of the cord. In seconds he was forty, fifty yards above the runway, dangling underneath
Anthony Horowitz
#93. Something's still wrong
the same thing that was wrong forty years ago. A malignancy, a tumor, slowly growing in someone's heart. A conscience that's seared.
Heather Day Gilbert
#94. We've only been sitting here forty minutes. I'm never at the morning table less than an hour and a half. I do some of my finest plotting over breakfast coffee and raisin brioche.
Dean Koontz
#95. The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.
Scott McNealy
#96. No matter what the clocks and calendars say . . . The years between forty and fifty seem to take one. From thirty to forty takes two; twenty to thirty, three. From nine to nineteen takes twenty.
Edna Robinson
#97. One day I saw the sun set forty-four times!' And a little later you added, 'You know, when you're feeling very sad, sunsets are wonderful ... '
'On the day of the forty-four times, were you feeling very sad?'
But the little prince didn't answer.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#98. I mean, she was just cool, you know? And she didn't even mean to be. She was just a hundred-watt lightbulb in a world of forty-watt bulbs. She shone.
Nick Lake
#99. We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten
not ten, but thirty or forty years, and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
Ted Turner
