One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
Saint Ignatius was a convert and disciple of S. John the Evangelist. He was appointed by S. Peter to succeed Evodius in the see of Antioch, and he continued in his bishopric full forty years.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.
I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened.
I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?
And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.
Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.
I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
My mother was widowed twice before she turned forty.
