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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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• 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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• Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Birthday, Time

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903)

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• Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

  Edward Young

  Birthday, Wise, Fortune Cookie

  The Love of Fame Satire 2, l. 282 (1725 - 1728)

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• When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

  Maya Angelou

  Birthday, Men, Age

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.266, Random House

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• Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

  Donald Justice

  Funny, Meaningful, Men

  "Men at Forty" l. 1 (1967)

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• We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

  Jules Renard

  Birthday, Twenties, Midlife

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• It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

  Woody Allen

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Years

  "A Look at Organized Crime" by Woody Allen in "Disquiet, Please! More Humor Writing from the New Yorker" by David Remnick, Henry Finder, (p. 364), 2008.

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• Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.

  Jack Benny

  Food, Cutting, Cooking

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• From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Pyramids, Looks

  Speech to his troops in Egypt, July 21, 1798.

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• For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.

  Mike Pence

  Pregnancy, Government, Years

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

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• She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

  J. B. Priestley

  Beauty, Years, 50th Birthday

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• Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.

  Joan Rivers

  Business, Partners, Equal

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• There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

  Andrew Shue

  Mom, Stay Strong, Children

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• Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

  Gore Vidal

  Thinking, Years, Numbers

  Gore Vidal (1991). “A view from the diners club: essays 1987-1991”

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• I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.

  Satchel Paige

  Years, Four, Hundred

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• Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

  Golda Meir

  Birthday, Men, Other Worlds

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• Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.

  Peter Benchley

  Ocean, Writing, Sea

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• When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

  Leon Blum

  Children, Twenties, Selflessness

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• The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Years, Done, Has Beens

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• I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

  Richard Brautigan

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?

  Robert Walpole

  Hypocrite, Years, Names

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• Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops.

  Marty Meehan

  Thinking, Troops, Citizens

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• Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

  Al Neuharth

  Failure, Way, Failing

  "USA Today founder Al Neuharth dies in Florida at 89". www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2013.

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• There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

  Allen Tate

  Art, Mean, Years

  allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

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