Age Of 40 Quotes - Page 2

• One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

  Pablo Picasso

  Birthday, Fortune Cookie, Age

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• Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

  Dorothy Parker

  Birthday, Age, May

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• You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful.

  Francis Spellman

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

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• Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

  Mary Schmich

  Funny, Birthday, Knowledge

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• Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

  H. H. Asquith

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Retirement

  In Observer 15 Apr. 1923

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• Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

  George William Curtis

  Birthday, Friends, Years

  George William Curtis (1856). “Prue and I”, p.111

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• We can't reach old age by another man's road.

  Mark Twain

  Birthday, Men, Endurance

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

  Phyllis Diller

  Cute, Birthday, Funny Relationship

  Phyllis Diller (1981). “The joys of aging--and how to avoid them: can sex keep you young? And other silly questions”, Doubleday Books

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• Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

  Robert Southey

  Funny Birthday, Years, Long

  'The Doctor' (1812) ch. 130

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• When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

  Mark Twain

  Birthday, Growing Up, Memories

  "Mark Twain's Own Autobiography," North American Review, 1 Mar. 1907

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• The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Birthday, Philosophical, Years

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• Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Birthday, Motivation

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  How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

  Satchel Paige

  Happy Birthday, Baseball, Fun

  Quoted in Garson Kanin, It Takes a Long Time to Become Young (1978)

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• Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

  Chili Davis

  Love, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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• The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Love, Funny, Relationship

  Herbert V. Prochnow (1994). “1000 Stories and Illustrations for All Occasions”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

  Dave Barry

  Birthday, People, Age

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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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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• Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

  Mark Twain

  Happy Birthday, Time, Growing Up

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.29, St. Martin's Press

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• Time and tide wait for no man.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Inspirational, Birthday, Time

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• This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Birthday, Wine, Years

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• Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Birthday, Friends

  1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 3.

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• One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Funny, Nice, Humorous

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

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• At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

  Ann Landers

  Funny, Uplifting, Retirement

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• Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Birthday, Positive

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.443, Courier Corporation

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  Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

  Truman Capote

  Life, Birthday, Humorous

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