40th Birthday Quotes
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
Quoted by Benjamin Franklin What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. Quoted by Helen Rowland At the age of twenty, we don't care what the world thinks of us; at thirty, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at forty, we discover that it wasn't thinking of us at all. Anonymous The first forty years of life give us the text: the next thirty supply the commentary. Quoted by Arthur Schopenhauer Life begins on your 40th birthday. But so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times. Quoted by Helen Rowland Every man over forty is a scoundrel. Quoted by George Bernard Shaw Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed. Quoted by Edward Young Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. Quoted from French Proverb This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age. (Latin: Hoc vinum Falernum annorum quadragenta est. Bene aetatem fert.) Quoted by Cicero The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men. Quoted by Colleen McCullough There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents. Quoted by Lewis Carroll When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense. Quoted by Maya Angelou If life really begins on your 40th birthday, it's because that's when women finally get it… the guts to take back their lives. Quoted by Laura Randolph Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty eight and forty. Quoted by James Thurber To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something. Quoted by Samuel Beckett Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. Quoted from French Proberb The first forty years of life give us the text: the next thirty supply the commentary. Quoted by Arthur Schopenhauer Life begins at forty. Quoted by W B Pitkin |
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