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Forty Quotes

Trump is the worst political leader I have experienced in all of my professional life, which is 40 years of working with governments at a high level. I’ve never seen anything like the narcissism of this man.

– Jeffrey Sachs

On US response to coronavirus.

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

– G. H. Hardy

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

– George Bernard Shaw

Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.

I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it’s enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.

– Gianni Agnelli

For a woman, forty is torture, the end.

– Grace Kelly

Hors D’oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.

– Jack Benny

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

– Allen Neuharth

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

– Benjamin Franklin

Forty percent of all electronics sold are assembled by Foxconn.

– Charles Duhigg

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

– Arthur Schopenhauer

I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn’t have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!

– Camille Pissarro

I am a rapid-cycling manic-depressive, bi-polar one disorder, which means I can have thirty or forty episodes a year, and I used to have thirty to forty episodes a year.

– Andy Behrman

There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.

– Buddy Rich

The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we’re not done yet.

– Fred Saberhagen

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

– Nastassja Kinski

Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.

– P. J. O’Rourke

I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

– Duke of Wellington

Forty minutes in front of Beck isn’t really where it’s at.

– Gene Ween

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

– Diane Duane

I mean in recent years, I think you’ve only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

– Neil Innes

The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.

– Erwin Schrodinger

And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.

– Charles Evers

I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed.

– Daniela Pestova

Anybody who’s been married to a man for forty odd years knows he’s all talk.

– Michael Parkinson

Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.

– Mac Thornberry

I download, like, forty songs a day, I’m a big music collector and a big record collector.

– Jesse Williams

I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened.

– Marcel Duchamp

Forty is the line of demarcation that says you’re an adult now. You’re an adult, so don’t pretend you’re a kid anymore.

– Paul Feig

Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream.

– Robert Brustein

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

– Rudyard Kipling

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