Forty Quotes - Page 3

• 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.

  Jane Rule

  Art, Cutting, Long

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• What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

  Voltaire

  Birthday, Loss, Aggravation

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• Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Sound And Music, Musical Life

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• I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.

  John Polkinghorne

  Sides, Significant, Best Work

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• From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Moving, Fall, Men

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• What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

  Diane Duane

  Years, Trying, Found

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• A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

  Stendhal

  Men, Years, Youth

  "The Charterhouse of Parma". Book by Stendhal, Ch. 23, 1839.

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• 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.

  Basil Hume

  Struggle, Evil, Suffering

  Basil Hume (2001). “Cardinal Hume: A Spiritual Companion : Reflections Through the Year”, Paraclete Press (MA)

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• The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Men, Years, Differences

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• Forty pictures I was in, and all I remember is 'What kind of bra will you be wearing today, honey?' That was always the area of big decision - from the neck to the navel.

  Donna Reed

  Decision, Sunglasses, Honey

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

  G. H. Hardy

  Science, Past, Oxford

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.148, Cambridge University Press

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• The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Birthday, Years, Giving

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• A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.

  Mae West

  Character, Men, Twenties

  Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House

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• She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction.

  Bob Hope

  Life, Helping, Comedy

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• 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

  Years, Empty Life, Generations

  "Larry David: The Man Behind Seinfeld". The Laugh Factory Magazine Interview, www.laughfactory.com. April 1994.

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• 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

  Dog, Time, Men

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.158, Shambhala Publications

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• I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

  Mick Jagger

  Stupid, Singing, Complaining

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Wise, Wisdom, Women

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

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• Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

  Edith Sitwell

  Rain, Fall, Loss

  "Still Falls the Rain" l. 1 (1942)

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• 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.

  Mac Thornberry

  Years, Alive, Passing

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

  Tony Visconti

  Science, Years, Today

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• For a woman, forty is torture, the end.

  Grace Kelly

  Ends, Torture

  Interview with William B. Arthur, "Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess" by James Spada, (p. 280), 1988.

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

  Rick Moody

  Children, Kids, Married

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• You can study God through everything and everyone in the universe, because God is not confined in a mosque, synagogue or church. But if you are still in need of knowing where exactly His abode is, there is only one place to look for Him: in the heart of a true lover.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Heart, Knowing, Church

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• My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.

  Duke Snider

  Salary, Dollars, Cadillacs

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