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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.
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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.
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
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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.
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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.
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After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.
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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.
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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
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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) -
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.
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Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.
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Every male copulating with a woman returns to his origins in the womb. Goethe postponed intercourse until he was forty. This must be related to his self-imposed distance from his forceful mother. To refuse phallic penetration is to refuse surrender to the female matrix.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.
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Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.
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Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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