Forty Quotes

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.

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

Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff

Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.

North Vegas is where you go if you're a hooker turning forty and the syndicate men on the strip decide you're no longer much good for business out there with the high rollers.

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.

No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.

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.

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.

To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' s**t and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty and still doing it.

The ethical argument regarding abortion hinges on the question of when life begins. Some believe life begins at forty.

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.

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

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

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.

I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt.

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

Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?

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

I was up watching Meet Joe Black at four AM. I was hoping Brad Pitt would die, and he was still alive at seven forty in the morning! I actually felt sorry for once, for critics.

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening.

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.

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.

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

What Turning Forty Means to Me I need to take my pants off as soon as I get home. I didn't used to have to do that. But now I do.

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

Life begins at age forty.

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

One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.

In my thirties I was doing it, in my forties I was organizing it and now, unfortunately, I can only talk about it.

Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now, once again, she was waiting.

Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop.

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