Forty Quotes

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. Rudyard Kipling
Failure Single Excuse Forty Reasons Million
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. Victor Hugo
Age Youth Old Old Age Fifty Forty
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. Meister Eckhart
Inspirational Soul Heart Yourself Human Being Own Thirty Hides Ourselves Inside Bear Know Know Yourself Learn Go Cover Covering Human Ox Being Depths Your Hard Skins Forty Ground Many Thick Why Things
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. Arthur Schopenhauer
Life First Thirty Give Supply Years Text Commentary Us Next Forty Forty Years
Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be. Joan Rivers
Funny Me You Will Equal Partners Sixty Forty
Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate. Gina Barreca
Women Cheese Wine Once About Only Vodka Buds Left Hit Taste Chocolate Forty Four
'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.' C. S. Lewis
Lion Myself Day Try Mind Picture One Day Carrying About Had Since Make Said Been Umbrella Began Sixteen Wood Story Then Forty
Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land. Joyce Meyer
God Complaining Complain Wilderness Entered Promised Promised Land Obeyed Could Years Just Land Forty Forty Years Wasted Murmuring
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. Baltasar Gracian
Lion Man Dog Nothing Thirty Seventy Camel Sixty Eighty Ape Fifty Forty Twenty Serpent Peacock
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. Benjamin Franklin
Age Will Judgment Thirty Wit Years Forty Twenty Reigns
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. Gore Vidal
Living Every Think Virus Earth Bacteria Both Attacked Host Years Die Dies Being Either Double Organism Forty Forty Years Billions Whose Numbers
Every man over forty is a scoundrel. George Bernard Shaw
Man Age Every Over Scoundrel Forty Every Man
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week. Laurence J. Peter
Relationship Better Lost Laundry Week Pounds Than Loved Forty
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. Hosea Ballou
Age Youth Old Old Age Fifty Forty
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Sometimes Old Young Seventy Hopeful More Cheerful Years Than Far Forty Forty Years
Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil. Basil Hume
Good Struggle Experience Good And Evil Christ Evil Our Easter Shall He Shared Between Days Underwent Die Died Forty Desert Suffer Suffered
Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces. Jack Benny
Hors Pieces Ham Cut Sandwich Forty
Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That's when you know the most, you've seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy. Jerry Seinfeld
You Seen Energy Say Would Physical Some Prime Know Most Understand Still Your Forty
Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you. Red Cloud
You World Live Take Goods Years Die Cannot Then Fifty Your Forty Even
'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson! Andrew Gross
Sad Life Eyes Events Nephew Past Real Life Own Young Suicide Other Took Kid Charles My Own Troubled Shape Open Bottom California None Cliff Real Years Encounter Years Ago Than Central Straight Landmark Manson Forty Forty Years Who Found Wide Second Chance Two
I try to write very fast. I don't revise very much. I write the poem in one sitting. Just let it rip. It's usually over in twenty to forty minutes. I'll go back and tinker with a word or two, change a line for some metrical reason weeks later, but I try to get the whole thing just done. Billy Collins
Change Try Word Back Later Rip Some Minutes Poem Weeks Write Over Go Line Revise Very Get Sitting Tinker Done Just Much Forty Reason Whole Twenty Fast Thing Two
The U.S. Constitution guarantees women across this country, including my daughters, the right to choose for themselves when and how to start their families. Yet, more than forty years after Roe v. Wade, women's reproductive rights remain in jeopardy. Mike Quigley
Constitution Rights Women Country More Remain Daughters How Wade Years Roe Families Than After Reproductive Themselves Across Choose Forty Forty Years Including Jeopardy Right Start Guarantees
We have all been guilty of complaining, but God does not look at it as lightly as we may think. Complaining was the reason the Jews ended up wandering in the desert for forty years. If we were more grateful for what God has done for us, abasing ourselves would not be a problem. Monica Johnson
God Grateful Problem Complaining Think Jews Guilty Ourselves Would More Lightly Look Does Were Been Years Up Ended Done May Wandering Us Forty Forty Years Reason Desert
I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought. Peter Steele
Day Thoughts Try Thought Own Every Other Input Run Minutes My Own Without Doing Subjected Up Five Any Which Sensory Worked Stand Miles Used Forty Every Other Day
I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away. Phyllis Diller
Sex Drive Tremendous Admit Boyfriend Miles Forty Away Lives
For forty years, I have devoted myself to the cause of the people's revolution with but one aim in view - the elevation of China to a position of freedom and equality among the nations. Sun Yat-sen
Myself Freedom People Equality Cause Revolution Aim Devoted Years Nations China View Forty Forty Years Among Elevation Position
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