1.
Don't ever go with the flow. Be the flow.
Jay-Z
'Don't ever drift along. Lead the way.'
2.
It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in."
Washington Gladden
3.
Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.
Elif Safak
4.
I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.
Pope Pius IX
6.
I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
Zac Efron
8.
Did you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once?
William F. Buckley, Jr.
9.
Forty is brilliant and I love it. I'm happier now than when I was 20.
Richard Hammond
10.
It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.
Aubrey Beardsley
12.
Why one Ad is worth more to a paper than 40 Editorials.
Will Rogers
13.
I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
Camille Pissarro
14.
When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke, you can pretty much guess what it's going to be.
John Cleese
15.
The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet.
Fred Saberhagen
16.
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
Nicolas Chamfort
20.
No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.
Clifford Bax
21.
One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
Henry James
22.
In my thirties I was doing it, in my forties I was organizing it and now, unfortunately, I can only talk about it.
Cynthia Payne
23.
One deed of kindness noticed is worth forty that are told.
Edgar Guest
24.
Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.
Colman McCarthy
25.
I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me
Pat Mora
27.
My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously.
Nancy A. Collins
28.
Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
Tori Amos
30.
I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
Zac Efron
31.
Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.
Jonah
32.
I'm so excited by women right now, not just in America but globally. Women really are coming into their own. We're standing on the shoulders of forty years of hard and messy work.
Jodie Evans
34.
If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!
Richard Yates
35.
What is private and what is discussed behind closed doors, you do not have to be instructed at the age of fifty or sixty or forty or whatever to not talk about it outside.
Jay Rockefeller
36.
People only live for forty or fifty years so if you were married for twenty or twenty-five of those then that was it. Now people live for eighty years and if your married for fifty or sixty of those you start to get on each other's nerves.
Zak Orth
37.
In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.
Mary Oliver
38.
With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.
David Levithan
39.
The way that I've always viewed my career, I always do what comes to me. I don't write forty songs per album, I write fifteen to twenty songs and pick the ones that represent this period of my life the most.
Rick DeJesus
40.
Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever.
Virginia Woolf
41.
Where the underworld can meet the elite, Forty-Second Street.
Al Dubin
42.
Forty percent of my ideas came from my wife.
Mike Royer
43.
Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work.
Chuck Klosterman
44.
To be a woman in your forties, I think it's a fantastic decade.
Gwyneth Paltrow
45.
Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant.
Marcia Cross
46.
I wasn't there that day to get on the three forty-seven to Yass", he says. "I was there to throw myself in front of it.
Melina Marchetta