Forty Quotes

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

It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in."

Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.

I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.

For a woman, forty is torture, the end.

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.

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

Did you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once?

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

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

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

Why one Ad is worth more to a paper than 40 Editorials.

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

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.

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

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

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

Life begins at age forty.

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

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

One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

In my thirties I was doing it, in my forties I was organizing it and now, unfortunately, I can only talk about it.

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

Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.

My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously.

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

Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.

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.

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

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.

My forties are the best time I have ever gone through.

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.

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.

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

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.

Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever.

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

Forty percent of my ideas came from my wife.

Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work.

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

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

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.

Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.

I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty.

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

Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.