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  • Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old.

    Money   Men   Years  
  • At almost forty years old, I assumed my career on camera was over. And I was certainly given that message by all the TV managers and news directors who passed on me when I was trying to get a job back in the business.

    Jobs   Years   Careers  
  • One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.

    Ellen Gilchrist (2010). “The Writing Life”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Imagine you're a forty-year-old, Richard," Hamilton said to me around this time, while working as a salesman at a Radio Shack in Lynn Valley,"and suddenly somebody comes up to you saying, 'Hi, I'd like you to meet Kevin. Kevin is eighteen and will be making all of your career decisions for you.' I'd be flipped out. Wouldn't you? But that's what life is all about - some eighteen-year-old kid making your big decisions for you that stick for a lifetime." He shuddered.

    Kids   Years   Careers  
  • To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

    Birthday   Time   Years  
    Letter to Julia Ward Howe on her 70th birthday, 27 May (1889)
  • A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

    Men   Years   Youth  
    "The Charterhouse of Parma". Book by Stendhal, Ch. 23, 1839.
  • There was a point where if you had told me I was going to be a national morning anchor, I would probably have been terrified. But now, I feel prepared. I've been in the business for almost 20 years now. I'm almost forty years old and I've been doing this for a long time, so I felt like, "Okay, I'm ready to do this."

    Morning   Years   Anchors  
    Source: www.elle.com
  • In my writers' room, which is mostly men, I get a lot of questions like "What would be the quickest way to pass as a seemingly normal guy between the ages of twenty-five and forty years old?"

    Men   Years   Guy  
    Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.
  • The first thing I did when I was forty years old, I put handcuffs on and I jumped off Alcatraz prison and swam to San Francisco handcuffed. That made national publicity. Then, there were three or four years where I would do more difficult feats. Another birthday I towed a thousand pound boat across the Golden Gate. On my 65th Birthday I towed 65 boats a mile and a half in Tokyo. On my 70th Birthday I towed 70 boats with 70 people in it with my feet and hands tied a mile and a half in Long Beach.... My next Birthday I will be 93. I'm gonna tow my wife across the bathtub.

    Beach   Hands   Years  
    Interview with Antonia Venezia, aliveeastbay.com. March 2007.
  • We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old.

    Years   Facts   Mortality  
  • An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.

    Sorry   Years   Dinner  
  • Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

    George William Curtis (1856). “Prue and I”, p.111
  • Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and other dainties; bring us a whole sheep, serve a goat and forty-year old mead! And plenty of vodka, not vodka with all sorts of fancies, not with raisins and flavorings, but pure foaming vodka, that hisses and bubbles like mad.

    Years   Cake   Sheep  
    Nikolai Gogol (1985). “The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.24, University of Chicago Press
  • I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.

  • A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.

    Boys   Men   Years  
    John Steinbeck (1995). “The Long Valley”, p.51, Penguin
  • We were looking for someone who could get the film [Filth] made at that kind of level, with the finance we wanted, and we spoke to a lot of people. When I met James [McAvoy] in the Soho Hotel with Jon Baird, the director, he looked about ten years old. I thought there's no way he's going to be a forty-year-old divorced alcoholic cop. I thought, really lovely guy, I'll let him and John talk and see if they get on.

    Years   People   Guy  
    Source: thequietus.com
  • I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.

    Money   Thinking   Men  
  • This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

    Birthday   Wine   Years  
  • The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

    "Write to the Heart : Wit & Wisdom Of Women Writers". Book by Amber Coverdale Sumrall, 1992.
  • What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

    Wisdom   Years   Hopeful  
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