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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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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
- Edward Young

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

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We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it.
- Jules Renard

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

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Life begins at forty.
- W. B. Pitkin

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

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At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At 40, we don't care what they think of us. At 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.
- Ann Landers

at 2008-10-11
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At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.
- Benjamin Franklin 40th birthday quotes

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Forty isn't old, if you're a tree
- Anonymous, on Turning 40

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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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When you reach forty you can't do anything every day.
- Henry “Hank” Aaron

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Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to.
- Donald Justice, "Men at Forty"

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At the age of 20, we don't care what the world thinks of us; at 30, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at 40, we discover that it wasn't thinking of us at all.

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From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience.
- Author Unknown

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The "I just woke up" face of your 30's is the "all day long" face of your 40's.
- Libby Reid

at 2008-10-07
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35 is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
- Oscar Wilde

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
- Abraham Sutzkever

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Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
- George William Curtis

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To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

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