Quotes of Forty - somelinesforyou

“ Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed. ”

- Edward Young

“ We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life. ”

- Ivy Compton Burnett

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

- Collen McCullough

“ England has forty-two religions and only two sauces. ”

- Voltaire

“ 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

“ I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs and forty-two-hundred hits. ”

- Pete Rose

“ My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years. ”

- Cathy Ladman

“ If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Every man over forty is a scoundrel. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never. ”

- Jack Benny

“ 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

“ Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years. ”

- George Burns

“ How can you expect to govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese? ”

- Charles de Gaulle

“ My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two twenties. ”

- Douglas William Jerrold

“ No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight. ”

- H.L. Mencken

“ When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his forties shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. ”

- Hugo Black

“ A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face. ”

- Billie Burke

“ At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. ”

- Baltasar Gracian

“ At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths — your abilities and your failings. ”

- Gerard Depardieu

“ Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed. ”

- Edward Young

“ Every man over forty is responsible for his face. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be. ”

- Gerald Barzan

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

- Victor Hugo

“ From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese? ”

- Charles de Gaulle

“ I did not enter the labor Party forty-seven years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr. Mori, Dr. Gallup, and Mr. Harris. ”

- Tony Benn

“ I'd rather be dead than singing ''Satisfaction'' when I'm forty-five. ”

- Mick Jagger
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