“ We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
- 2K
“ The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year-old men more. ”
- Collen McCullough- Copy
- 699
“ 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- Copy
- 61
“ I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs and forty-two-hundred hits. ”
- Pete Rose- Copy
- 2.5K
“ My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years. ”
- Cathy Ladman- Copy
- 2.2K
“ 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- Copy
- 421
“ 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- Copy
- 2.2K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.8K
“ 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- Copy
- 3K
“ How can you expect to govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese? ”
- Charles de Gaulle- Copy
- 826
“ 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- Copy
- 2.4K
“ No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight. ”
- H.L. Mencken- Copy
- 492
“ 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- Copy
- 850
“ A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face. ”
- Billie Burke- Copy
- 3.3K
“ At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
- 2.5K
“ 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- Copy
- 2K
“ At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 778
“ 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- Copy
- 2.7K
“ From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
- 1.2K
“ How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese? ”
- Charles de Gaulle- Copy
- 4K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I'd rather be dead than singing ''Satisfaction'' when I'm forty-five. ”
- Mick Jagger- Copy
- 1.2K
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