Forty Years Old Quotes

• To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Birthday, Time, Years

  Letter to Julia Ward Howe on her 70th birthday, 27 May (1889)

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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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• Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old.

  Henry Ford

  Money, Men, Years

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• There was a point where if you had told me I was going to be a national morning anchor, I would probably have been terrified. But now, I feel prepared. I've been in the business for almost 20 years now. I'm almost forty years old and I've been doing this for a long time, so I felt like, "Okay, I'm ready to do this."

  Ainsley Earhardt

  Morning, Years, Anchors

  Source: www.elle.com

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• We were looking for someone who could get the film [Filth] made at that kind of level, with the finance we wanted, and we spoke to a lot of people. When I met James [McAvoy] in the Soho Hotel with Jon Baird, the director, he looked about ten years old. I thought there's no way he's going to be a forty-year-old divorced alcoholic cop. I thought, really lovely guy, I'll let him and John talk and see if they get on.

  Irvine Welsh

  Years, People, Guy

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

  Colleen McCullough

  Birthday, Appreciation, Women

  "Write to the Heart : Wit & Wisdom Of Women Writers". Book by Amber Coverdale Sumrall, 1992.

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• I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.

  Henry Ford

  Money, Thinking, Men

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• What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Wisdom, Years, Hopeful

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• In my writers' room, which is mostly men, I get a lot of questions like "What would be the quickest way to pass as a seemingly normal guy between the ages of twenty-five and forty years old?"

  Mindy Kaling

  Men, Years, Guy

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

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• The first thing I did when I was forty years old, I put handcuffs on and I jumped off Alcatraz prison and swam to San Francisco handcuffed. That made national publicity. Then, there were three or four years where I would do more difficult feats. Another birthday I towed a thousand pound boat across the Golden Gate. On my 65th Birthday I towed 65 boats a mile and a half in Tokyo. On my 70th Birthday I towed 70 boats with 70 people in it with my feet and hands tied a mile and a half in Long Beach.... My next Birthday I will be 93. I'm gonna tow my wife across the bathtub.

  Jack LaLanne

  Beach, Hands, Years

  Interview with Antonia Venezia, aliveeastbay.com. March 2007.

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• Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and other dainties; bring us a whole sheep, serve a goat and forty-year old mead! And plenty of vodka, not vodka with all sorts of fancies, not with raisins and flavorings, but pure foaming vodka, that hisses and bubbles like mad.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Years, Cake, Sheep

  Nikolai Gogol (1985). “The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.24, University of Chicago Press

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• I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Children, School, Frustration

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• An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.

  Anton Chekhov

  Sorry, Years, Dinner

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• A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.

  John Steinbeck

  Boys, Men, Years

  John Steinbeck (1995). “The Long Valley”, p.51, Penguin

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• Imagine you're a forty-year-old, Richard," Hamilton said to me around this time, while working as a salesman at a Radio Shack in Lynn Valley,"and suddenly somebody comes up to you saying, 'Hi, I'd like you to meet Kevin. Kevin is eighteen and will be making all of your career decisions for you.' I'd be flipped out. Wouldn't you? But that's what life is all about - some eighteen-year-old kid making your big decisions for you that stick for a lifetime." He shuddered.

  Douglas Coupland

  Kids, Years, Careers

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• We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old.

  Hideo Kojima

  Years, Facts, Mortality

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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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• 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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• One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.

  Ellen Gilchrist

  Inspirational, Years, Reason

  Ellen Gilchrist (2010). “The Writing Life”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• At almost forty years old, I assumed my career on camera was over. And I was certainly given that message by all the TV managers and news directors who passed on me when I was trying to get a job back in the business.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Jobs, Years, Careers

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