Quotes with forty-eight

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  • George Bernard Shaw Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Billie Burke A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.
    Billie Burke
    American actress (1884 - 1970)
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  • Meister Eckhart 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
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • George Orwell Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Anita Brookner She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Caroll Spinney When I was eight, I bought my first puppet. It was a monkey, and I paid five cents for it. I collected some scrap wood and built myself a puppet theatre. I made 32 cents with my first show, which I thought was pretty good, and that's when I knew I would be a puppeteer when I grew up.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Arthur Capper A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • William Somerset Maugham A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Barbara Corcoran A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Caroline B. Cooney Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
    Caroline B. Cooney
    American author
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  • Barbara Cartland After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • James Baldwin After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Ben Chandler As attorney general, I've had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.
    Ben Chandler
    American politician and lawyer (1959 - )
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  • Albert Claude As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Baltasar Gracián 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 Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Benjamin Franklin At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Edward Young Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken But that is a rare, rare man, I venture, who is as steadily intelligent, as constantly sound in judgment, as little put off by appearances, as the average women of forty-eight.
    In Defense of Women (1918)
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Candice Bergen But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty.
    Candice Bergen
    American actress (1946 - )
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