Quotes with forty-five

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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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  • Groucho Marx A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Zig Ziglar Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Walter Cronkite I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.
    Walter Cronkite
    American broadcast journalist (1916 - 2009)
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  • Damon Runyon I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.
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  • Lord George Byron I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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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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  • Bernie S. Siegel Our Creator has given us five senses to help us survive threats from the external world, and a sixth sense, our healing system, to help us survive internal threats.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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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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  • Hervey Allen The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
    Hervey Allen
    American author (1889 - 1949)
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  • Eric Hoffer There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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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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  • Burning Spear When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Adrian Smith A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.
    Adrian Smith
    English guitarist and pianist (1957 - )
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  • George Moore A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially.
    George Moore
    Irish writer (1852 - 1933)
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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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  • Francis Picabia A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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