I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.
I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up.
If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.
I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
I'll be dead by the time I'm forty.
That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.
Moses spent forty years in the king's palace thinking that he was somebody; then he lived forty years in the wilderness finding out that without GOD he was a nobody; finally he spent forty more years discovering how a nobody with GOD can be a somebody.
Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.
It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but fey in the paling dawn, desperately making the most of each bar of music before one went home to bed.
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.
There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.
Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.
Forty percent of my ideas came from my wife.
I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.
It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in. "
No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.
I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I'm a case of working forty years to be an overnight success.
The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work. Many people are aware of these principles, but very few can put them into practice. Every day I hear someone say, 'I'm to fat. I need to lose twenty-five pounds, but I can't. I never seem to improve. ' I'd hate myself if I had that kind of attitude, if I were that weak. I can lose ten to forty pounds rapidly, easily, painlessly, by simply setting my mind to it.