The best years of a woman's life - the ten years between 39 and 40.
- Unknown Author
- Unknown Author
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy
- Voltaire
- Voltaire
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
- French Proverb
- French Proverb
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
- George Bernard Shaw
- George Bernard Shaw
When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.
- Maya Angelou
- Maya Angelou
Life begins on your 40th birthday. But so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
- Helen Rowland
- Helen Rowland
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men.
- Colleen McCullough
- Colleen McCullough
When you reach forty you can't do anything every day.
- Henry 'Hank' Aaron
- Henry 'Hank' Aaron
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
- Edward Young
- Edward Young
The first forty years of life give us the text: the next thirty supply the commentary.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Arthur Schopenhauer
