Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.
There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.
When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright.
Forty years ago, my life in music was substantially different to today. I went out every night with my guitar seeking a place to sing, a floor on which to lie, some love, some food, a lot of wine. There was no business, no gigs, no questions, no P. R. , recording, life was simpler, I was poor and young and hungry. Today I am a lot more focused on The Song.
If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.
Life begins at age forty.
At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings.
I went to sea from the most tender age and have continued in a sea life to this day. Whoever gives himself up to this art wants to know the secrets of Nature here below. It is more than forty years that I have been thus engaged. Wherever any one has sailed, there I have sailed.
For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus]
Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.
I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never a time thatI questioned it or doubted it. . . . For forty years, I wanted to jump out of windows.
I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty
Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant.
Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.
It's perfectly possible to spend forty hours a week on a job that's meaningless, as long as you know what your real vocation is and find some way to express it. Then you won't confuse your job with the meaning of your life.
In my thirties I was doing it, in my forties I was organizing it and now, unfortunately, I can only talk about it.
A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?