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You do realize Kingsley is forty-five, yes?" "I told them," Nora said. "Age is only a number," Angie said. "So is sixty-nine," Maxine said. — Tiffany Reisz

With all due respect, if you're forty-three, then I'm a fetus. — David Levithan

People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working. — Mason Cooley

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves. — Sarah Bernhardt

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. — Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. — Benjamin Franklin

It was him, thirty years too old, twenty pounds too light, & forty watts too dim maybe, but him. — Michael Chabon

Anything you think is wrong with your body at the age of thirty-five you will be nostalgic for at the age of forty-five. — Nora Ephron

Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff — Harold Nicolson

I'm forty-two," he said. "That's eighty-four in musician years. — Monica Wood

Forty seemed about right, and it occurred to me that it's too bad for a fella to die at forty, a real shame. It's a man's most anonymous age. — Stephen King

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

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

You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating. — Tasha Alexander

We have lunch at ten-forty-five, Colin said. A stupidly early lunch. At our school, the older you get, the stupider your lunch period. — Rebecca Stead

The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young. — Paul Dickson

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. — Hosea Ballou

For forty years I saw myself thru John's eyes. I did not age. — Joan Didion

Someone has said that after age forty, each of us pretty much deserves the face he is wearing. He designed it form the inside. — Sterling W. Sill

I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight. — James Thurber

No one is young after forty, but one can be irresistible at any age — Coco Chanel

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years. — J.B. Priestley

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. — Colleen McCullough

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near forty. — Chris Rock

There are books which one should not attempt before having passed the age of forty. — Marguerite Yourcenar

The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more. — Colleen McCullough

Forty's nothing, at fifty you're in your prime, sixty's the new forty, and so on. — Julian Barnes

The ideal age for a boy to own a dog is between forty-five and fifty. — Robert Benchley

Life begins at age forty. — Walter B. Pitkin

Forty being the "precise age where you're old enough and young enough to handle a revelation". — Liane Moriarty

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older
how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty. — L.M. Montgomery

Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then. — Henry Ford

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine. — Aristotle.

Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters. — Arsene Houssaye

By the war's end, some 180,000 blacks had served in the Union Army - over one fifth of the nation's adult male black population under age forty-five. — Eric Foner

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am. — Sarah Orne Jewett

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

Forty-seven is nothing at all, nor is any age unless you're a cheese ... — Billie Burke

Any man who is capable of being offended or insulted after the age of forty is either immature or a damned hypocrite." (Senator) — Leonard Holton

It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three. — John Le Carre

Every man over forty is a scoundrel. — George Bernard Shaw

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty. — Doris Lessing

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. — Gerard Depardieu

I'm forty-two years old - which is a lot more like middle age than forty or even forty-one. — Claire Messud

Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive. — Robert Lowell

Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time. For forty years I saw myself through John's eyes. I did not age. — Joan Didion

Internet Explorer, Microsoft's crashware turd that no one under the age of forty used voluntarily. — Cory Doctorow

From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr. — Arthur Wing Pinero

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options. — Ellen Goodman

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate. — Edward Abbey

I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age. — Charles Darwin

She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four. — Barbara Kingsolver

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. — Victor Hugo

I wouldn't have thought her young enough, as I had put her age somewhere north of forty. — Teju Cole