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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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  • Arthur Christopher Benson I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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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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  • 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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  • Casey Stengel The key to good management is keeping the nine guys who hate your guts away from the nine guys who haven't made up their minds.
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    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Sir John Lubbock We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • William Shakespeare 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to hour we rot and rot. and thereby hangs a tale.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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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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  • Lao-Tzu A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • C. S. Lewis Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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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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  • Anna Jameson All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
    Anna Jameson
    Anglo-Irish art historian (1794 - 1860)
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  • Bill Dedman An investigation by msnbc.com shows that the CDC routinely takes as long as a month - and sometimes as long as nine months - to visit the scene of firefighter deaths.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Betty Comden Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.
    Betty Comden
    American musician and writer of screenplays (1917 - 2006)
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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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