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Every man over forty is a scoundrel. - George Bernard Shaw

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. - Victor Hugo

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty ... - Nastassja Kinski

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at ... - Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Life begins at age forty.

I'll be dead by the time I'm forty.

Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.

For a woman, forty is torture, the end.

I can spot a homosexual at forty paces.

Don't ever go with the flow. Be the flow.

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

Forty percent of my ideas came from my wife.

I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.

I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty

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

My mother was widowed twice before she turned forty.

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

And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.

It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.

One deed of kindness noticed is worth forty that are told.

Forty minutes in front of Beck isn't really where it's at.

For forty years, I've worn the same Azzaro Uomo fragrance.

I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up.

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

Where the underworld can meet the elite, Forty-Second Street.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.

There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.

To be a woman in your forties, I think it's a fantastic decade.

I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me

One person can make a difference, even if it takes forty years.

Forty percent of all electronics sold are assembled by Foxconn.

No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.

Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant.

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Forty Wall Street is probably the most beautiful tower in New York.

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

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Forty is brilliant and I love it. I'm happier now than when I was 20.

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

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

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

You know, 65-year-olds love sneakers because they make them feel forty.

Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream.

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

I turned forty, and I'm finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.

I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.

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