(130 quotes found)
“Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one I think it is.”
Mark Twain
“Three years ago I was forty... forty! Four-oh! That slipped out. Now I suddenly feel as if I've taken all my clothes off.”
Bette Davis
“The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year old men more”
Colleen McCullough
“Forty thousand brothersCould not, with all their quantity of love,Make up my sum.”
William Shakespeare
“Today is a big day in TV history. On this day forty-one years ago, the Beverly Hillbillies aired for the first time right here on CBS. They took a little break, then in 1992, they moved into the White House for eight years.”
David Letterman
“In a cavern, in a canyon, Excavating for a mine Dwelt a miner, Forty-niner, And his daughter, Clementine”
Percy Montrose
“And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: / And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.”
Bible
“With every passing hour, our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.”
Ray Floyd
“To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet”
Eugene Delacroix
“That we have come as far as we have in forty years [the 1930s to the 1970s] is hopeful, though I believe it is more through the fact that Hitler's excesses made racism poisonous to any humane individual than through our own virtue. That we have much farther to go is incontestable.”
Isaac Asimov
