| "I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black." »Auguste Renoir |
| "What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them-thus preserving the system." »Quentin |
| "Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil" »Golda Meir |
| "At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing." »Baltasar Gracian |
| "One only needs two tools in life WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop." »G. Weilacher |
| "Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing." »Golda Meir |
| "To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40." »James Grover Thurber |
| "Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar." »J. Edgar Hoover |
| "Weird, isn't it Somehow in the dead of winter when its 40 below, so cold your words just freeze in the air, you think you'll never hear a robin's song again or see a blossom on a cherry tree, when one day you wake up and bingo, light coming through the mini blinds is softened with a tick of rose and the cold morning air has lost its bite. It's spring once again, the streets are paved with mud and the hills are alive with the sound of mosquitos." »Andrew Schneider |
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