Be wise with speed;
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
- Edward Young
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Life begins at forty.
- W. B. Pitkin
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
- George Bernard Shaw
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What most persons consider as virtue,
after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- Voltaire
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The first forty years of life give us the text: the next thirty supply the commentary.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
- French Proverb
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A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age. - Robert Benchley
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The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men. - Colleen McCullough
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When I passed forty I dropped pretense, ‘cause men like women who got some sense. - Maya Angelou
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Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty eight and forty. - James Thurber
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