Forty Quotes

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke, you can pretty much guess what it's going to be.

I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.

Why one Ad is worth more to a paper than 40 Editorials.

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.

What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

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.

I am a rapid-cycling manic-depressive, bi-polar one disorder, which means I can have thirty or forty episodes a year, and I used to have thirty to forty episodes a year.

A forty and a blunt, that's all she really wants.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.

Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.

The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

Don't be a salary slave! If you are going to do anything in this world, you must start before you are forty, before your period of initiative has ended. Do it now!

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

Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.

I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a waitress who's having a bad day is a lot more fun than Robin Williams doing forty minutes of material.

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.

[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.

I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.

I'll be dead by the time I'm forty.

Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.

For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus]

I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

I turned forty, and Im finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.

Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life.

I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.

There are thirty to forty thousand left-wing professors in the United States who are racists, murderers, sexual deviants and supporters of Al-Qaeda.

At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].

The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.

We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that.

Life begins at age forty.

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

I had no concept of this [healthy food] until very, very late in life, thanks to a trainer/nutritionist that I met who has been working with me since I was forty-five.

Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops.

I know some good old gals in their 50s and 60s. All these women tell me, 'Forty to 50. Those are the hot times.' So far, you couldn't prove it by me. But hell, I'm only two years in.

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.

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

When one woman was asked how long she had been going to symphony concerts, she paused to calculate and replied, 'Forty-seven years - and I find I mind it less and less.