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"My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years." »Cathy Ladman
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"Every man over forty is a scoundrel." »George Bernard Shaw
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"England has forty-two religions and only two sauces." »Voltaire
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"No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage." »Clifford Bax
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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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"When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am." »Samuel Johnson
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"The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year-old men more." »Collen McCullough
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"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse." »Rudyard Kipling
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"If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain." »Winston Churchhill
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"Forty years of change and evolution,they barely even tapped the enormity of Omani people’s potential." »The Omani Shed
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"At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths-your abilities and your failings." »Grard Depardieu
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"Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies." »Woody Allen
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"But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way." »Jane Austen
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"It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies." »Woody Allen
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"I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'" »Earl Warren
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"Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this." »Benjamin Haydon
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"My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never." »Jack Benny
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"There aren't four seasons a year in the mountains; there are forty seasons a day up there in those divine altitudes!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head." »Aristide Briand
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"Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed." »Edward Young
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"The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties." »Schopenhauer
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"Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age." »Victor Hugo
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"The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief." »Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
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"When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident... or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort." »E. J. Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic
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"Nicky A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all f***in' night." »Casino
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"At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self- confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?" »Jules Feiffer
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