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I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd. By Bruce Cockburn Absurd Remember Idea Living

I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon. By Kate Christensen Love Decades Calm Ambition Perspective

I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care. By Billy Zane Enjoying Young Care

Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means. By Paul Feig Pause Life Young Age Assess

You know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy. By David Bowie Feel Fifty Bouncy Fortynine Day

At any given time, there are forty times in the world. By Jonathan Safran Foer World Forty Time Times

At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the time to show oneself, the time of fulfillment. By Thomas Mann Time Oneself Fulfillment Thirty Man

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times. By William Feather Rheumatism Life Arches Faulty Eyesight

Let us not aspire to four-year goals but rather forty-year goals. By Michael Skolnik Goals Aspire Fouryear Fortyyear

There is no need to feel defeated at 40, 50 or 60. I'm having the greatest time in the second half of my life. By Kim Cattrall Feel Defeated Life Greatest Time

In our business, just getting to 40 means something ... that's why I think sometimes you have to just live in the moment. You have to enjoy life to its fullest. By Jeff Gordon Business Moment Live Fullest Enjoy

I read somewhere that a man should tell the story of his life at the age of forty, and this deadline is fast approaching as I write these lines, only a few short weeks remain before this ominous birthday arrives. By Juan Gabriel Vasquez Forty Lines Arrives Read Man

I'm forty four; I'm way closer to dead than I am life of the party. By Doug Stanhope Party Forty Closer Dead Life

The whole concept behind 'Forty Chances' is really a mindset: If everybody thought they had to put themselves out of business in 40 years, you had 40 chances to succeed in what your primary goals are, you would probably be more urgent and you would be forced to change quicker. By Howard Graham Buffett Years Forty Chances Mindset Chances

The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young. By Paul Dickson Young Great Comfort Turning Fortynine

At forty-five, I feel grateful almost daily to be the adult I wished I could be when I was seventeen. I work on my arm strength at the gym; I've become pretty good with tools. At the same time, almost daily, I lose battles with the seventeen-year-old who's still inside me. I eat half a box of Oreos for lunch, I binge on TV, I make sweeping moral judgments. I run around in torn jeans, I drink martinis on a Tuesday night, I stare at beer-commercial cleavage. I define as uncool any group to which I can't belong. I feel the urge to key Range Rovers and slash their tires; I pretend I'm never going to die. You never stop waiting for the real story to start, because the only real story, in the end, is that you die. By Jonathan Franzen Daily Fortyfive Seventeen Grateful Adult

40For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. By Anonymous Father Son Life Day Eternal

I don't consider 41 being in prime of life. Even if I conceived a child tomorrow I'd be 52 by the time it was 10. I'm not sure I'd have the energy, and I find that quite scary. By Jeremy Northam Life Prime Conceived Child Tomorrow

If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty. By Finley Peter Dunne Fifty Live Befure Thirty Care

I'm forty-two years old - which is a lot more like middle age than forty or even forty-one. By Claire Messud Fortyone Fortytwo Years Lot Middle

Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person. By Vicky Beeching Thirtyfive Life Half Person Lose

Long live the car crash hearts Cry on the couch all the poets come to life Fix me in 45 By Pete Wentz Cry Fix Long Live Car

Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge. By Al-Ghazali Vice Hellfire Passes Forty Virtue

I am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age. To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty? Answer that, sincerely and honestly. I will tell you who do: fools and worthless fellows. I tell all old men that to their face, all these venerable old men, all these silver-haired and reverend seniors! I tell the whole world that to its face! I have a right to say so, for I shall go on living to sixty myself. To seventy! To eighty! By Fyodor Dostoyevsky Years Forty Lifetime Age Extreme

I'll be dead by the time I'm forty. By Rod Stewart Forty Dead Time

Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today ... The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. By William Osler Treasures Forty Work Action Science

The age of 40 is not a death sentence. By George Foreman Sentence Age Death

I don't love the years going by. I'd just as soon stay forty-five. But it's OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five. By Stevie Nicks Love Years Fortyfive Stay Thirtyfive

To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty? Answer that, sincerely and honestly I will tell you who do: fools and worthless fellows. I By Fyodor Dostoyevsky Immoral Manners Vulgar Live Forty

Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package. By Keanu Reeves Ferrari Package Feeling Age Ordered

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty. By Elizabeth Cady Stanton Fifty Heyday Woman Life Shady

You're just the romantic age," she continued- "fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty." - Hildegarde By F Scott Fitzgerald Age Fifty Sixty Continued Romantic

it was forty degrees outside. By Gayle Forman Forty Degrees

As a reminder to himself that at forty-three you don't make plans to dabble in different lives. At forty-three, what you are, what you know, is about as far as you're going to go in this life; By Richard Price Lives Fortythree Reminder Make Plans

40But as for you, v turn, and journey into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea. By Anonymous Sea Red Turn Journey Wilderness

If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens. By Mokokoma Mokhonoana Forty Teens Life Begins Poor

Be pleased to look forward,And pleased to look behind,Count today, your 40th, and each birthdayWith a grateful mind. By John Walter Bratton Pleased Today Mind Forwardand Behindcount

I thought you said you were okay with turning forty. By Michael Thomas Ford Forty Thought Turning

The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day. By Nicholas Murray Butler Week Charm Day Fortyhour

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up. By George Burns Life Forty Begins Silly Morning

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come. By Alain De Botton History Age Man Strive Packed

Compared to prehistoric times, ninety is the new forty. By Anne Kreamer Compared Times Ninety Forty Prehistoric

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it By Jules Renard Twenty Understand Life Forty Admit

Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life. By Ivy Compton-Burnett Pushing Forty Life Hanging Dear

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. By Dave Barry Coke Diet Antibiotics Nasal Spray

Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be a writer. I worked at my writing whenever I could snatch a moment, and I assembled several manuscripts. I was just about forty when my first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published. Then a few months later came The Good Earth. My career was launched at last, and it has given me the richest possible satisfaction By Pearl S. Buck Wind Significant Life Happened Passed

Congratulations!If I may be so boldOnly 40 years to goBefore you're a century oldJust saying By John Walter Bratton Congratulations Boldonly Years Gobefore Century

A man of forty-five can consider himself still young till the moment comes when he realises that he has children old enough to fall in love. By Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa Love Man Fortyfive Young Till

If you think hitting 40 is liberating, wait until you hit 50; and I was surprised at how liberating it was. The anticipation of something is always much worse than the reality. By Michelle Pfeiffer Hitting Wait Hit Liberating Surprised

Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels. By Fyodor Dostoyevsky Sincerely Honestly Forty Answer Lives

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s. By Anthony Kiedis Idea Defying Convention

I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise. By Gloria Steinem Life Dreams Surprises Surprise Long

50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point? By Jim Carrey Love Years Time Separate People

The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7. By Guillermo Del Toro Point Fulfill Desires Harboring

I know forty-one is the new eighteen, but tell that to my metabolism. By Marian Keyes Eighteen Metabolism Fortyone

Forty minutes, times sixty seconds, that's twenty-four thousand seconds to go. By David Mitchell Forty Minutes Times Sixty Twentyfour

The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is ... 42! By Douglas Adams Life Ultimate Answer Universe

Kit, you're forty. You look thirty. You act ... well, never mind. You're carrying on like you think you're seventy By Josh Lanyon Kit Forty Thirty Act Mind

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty. By James Russell Lowell Forty Rind Twenty Bite Truths

At 45, you know what you're doing, but you're still not done. By Lisa Kudrow

I'd always assumed that by 40 I'd have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an established career, a bountiful fullness, like a pillow into which I could sink as I entered the second half of my life. By Deborah Copaken Kogan Stability Income Career Fullness Life

At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline. By Sarah Moore Grimke Disappointments Hopes Suffering Discipline Sixty

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. By Colleen Mccullough Men Lovely Thing Forty

Age is just a number baby, what are you now? 40? By Stephenie Meyer Age Baby Number

By forty, is there anyone who hasn't had to recognize that happiness, as understood by youth, is illusory? That the best one can hope for is an absence of too many tragedies and that the road through the inevitable grief be, if not smooth, then steady? By Robin Black Forty Happiness Youth Illusory Recognize

Am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age. To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty? Answer that, sincerely and honestly I will tell you who do: fools and worthless fellows. By Fyodor Dostoyevsky Years Forty Lifetime Age Extreme

I think it's the strange irony that we make all these life choices before we're 40, because really we shouldn't make any until we're 40. It almost feels like you get a software upgrade and you start to experience life in such a different way, because you just don't suffer fools, you go straight for what means something and what feels good, and you stop caring about pleasing other people. By Gwyneth Paltrow Make Life Strange Irony Choices

Woo-hoo! I'm 40. I can say that now. By Kelly Ripa Woohoo

Fifty is a big corner to turn. It used to mean being put out to pasture, but it's the opposite with me. I feel more vibrant; I'm more active than I've ever been. The F-word really is freedom. It's the freedom to have dropped the rock-the rock of addiction, of family, of comparisons with other people. It's being fit and focused and kind of furious. By Jamie Lee Curtis Fifty Turn Big Corner Freedom

After he tipped his hat and left, Jillian watched him stride down the hallway. Yeah, Big-brotherly overprotection aside, fortysomething looked good on the police captain from this view, too. By Julie Miller Jillian Left Hallway Yeah Bigbrotherly

How much do you value life?" "Sixty-four. By Richard Feynman Sixtyfour Life

The best thing about being 45 is not taking myself so seriously. Do I miss the package I came in at 25? I do. Gravity is no one's friend. Yet the perspective I've gained is so worth the wear and tear. What would have mortified me at 25 is now simply fodder for a funny, relatable story. Also? I was a waitress at 25, and now I'm an author. Forty-five is definitely better. By Jen Lancaster Thing Taking Miss Package Gravity

I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility. By Henry Rollins People Humility Warn Require Massive

Sixty-four has a way of forgetting what twenty-one was like. By Stephen King Sixtyfour Forgetting Twentyone

I hated turning 40; the whole idea of it stank. But once I got through it, I was fine. By Cindy Crawford Turning Stank Hated Idea Fine

At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality]. By John Travolta Kid Fifty Realize Longer Forty

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research. By Carl Jung Life Forty Begin Research

Maybe tomorrow we'll all wear 42, so nobody can tell us apart. By Pee Wee Reese Wear Tomorrow

39. Is there no way out of the mind? By Sylvia Plath Mind

Forty-one was a very special number, the initial integer in the longest continuous string of quadratic primes. By Arthur C. Clarke Fortyone Number Primes Special Initial

I don't feel like a 40-year-old. I feel more like four 10-year-olds, each pulling in a different direction. By Michael Feldman Feel Direction Pulling

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty. By John Lanchester Eighty Heard Forty Fortyfive People

If we want to pick the point where a man's sexual appeal has reached its limit, it's there: forty. By Christian Rudder Forty Limit Pick Point Man

When I got to 40, I was happy. Now I can wear what I like, listen to what I like, don't have to try and be cool. I'm someone's dad and it doesn't matter any more. That's an enormous freedom. By John Simm Happy Listen Cool Wear Freedom

My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I. By Robert B. Parker Tonight Older Son Fortyone Years

Well," he said. "I hope to God I never make forty I wouldn't know what to do with myself. By Hunter S. Thompson God Hope Make Forty

Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. By Erica Jong Turning Fifty Flying Hours Terror

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. By Phyllis Diller Fifty True Life Begins Fall

What are the years from twenty to forty? Fettered and bound by personal and emotional relationships. That's bound to be. That's living. But later there's a new stage. You can think, observe life, discover something about other people and the truth about yourself. Life becomes realsignificant. You see it as a whole. Not just one scenethe scene you, as an actor, are playing. No man or woman is actually himself (or herself) till after forty-five. That's when individuality has a chance. By Agatha Christie Forty Years Twenty Bound Life

At forty, a man wears the face he's earned. By Gillian Flynn Forty Earned Man Wears Face

At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women. By Myrtle Reed Woman Women Twenty Men Thirty

Speaking personally, I didn't think 40 would be a big issue, and I don't think I have issues about age, but there are naturally some big questions that come up at that point in your life. By Murray Bartlett Big Speaking Personally Age Life

Men at Forty"Men at fortyLearn to close softlyThe doors to rooms they will not beComing back to.At rest on a stair landing,They feel itMoving beneath them now like the deck of a ship,Though the swell is gentle.And deep in mirrorsThey rediscoverThe face of the boy as he practices tryingHis father's tie there in secretAnd the face of that father,Still warm with the mystery of lather.They are more fathers than sons themselves now.Something is filling them, somethingThat is like the twilight soundOf the crickets, immense,Filling the woods at the foot of the slopeBehind their mortgaged houses. By Donald Justice Men Face Forty Somethingthat Crickets

Let's start at 35 because I don't know where it is. By Eugene Ormandy Start

Because the universal truth of getting older is obvious: IF YOU ARE A LOSER AT FORTY YOU WILL BE A LOSER FOR LIFE. By Mike Gayle Loser Life Forty Obvious Universal

There is nothing that anyone can get past a forty-five-year-old woman." We laugh hard, the first honest sound I make that afternoon, or in many days, each of us feeling the ravages of experience, our debt to enduring. We are not to be fucked with. We rule. Even as we age and help our children push past us, as we worry about the estimate for the roof, forget things we meant to do, regard our widening bodies, we rule. We've returned again and again to our original selves for another look; we have refined our purpose. Changes we thought we'd been resisting have anyway been wrought, and they have made us unbreakable. By Susanna Sonnenberg Woman Rule Past Hard Afternoon

43There I will meet with the people of Israel, and it shall be sanctified by my glory. By John F. Macarthur Jr. Israel Glory Meet People Sanctified

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings. By Gerard Depardieu Failings Truth Truths Twenty Desires

What I wouldn't give to be seventy again! By Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Give Seventy

I saw the sunset forty-four times! By Antoine De Saint-Exupery Times Sunset Fortyfour