Top Forty Quotes

  • It was him, thirty years too old, twenty pounds too light, & forty watts too dim maybe, but him. – Michael Chabon

    It was him, thirty years too old, twenty pounds too light, & forty watts too dim maybe, but him.– Michael Chabon

  • Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty. – Doris Lessing

    Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.– Doris Lessing

  • If a woman tells you she’s twenty and looks sixteen, she’s twelve. If she tells you she’s twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she’s damn near forty. – Chris Rock

    If a woman tells you she’s twenty and looks sixteen, she’s twelve. If she tells you she’s twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she’s damn near forty.– Chris Rock

  • You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating. – Tasha Alexander

    You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.– Tasha Alexander

  • … forty’s nothing, at fifty you’re in your prime, sixty’s the new forty, and so on. – Julian Barnes

    … forty’s nothing, at fifty you’re in your prime, sixty’s the new forty, and so on.– Julian Barnes

  • Duntz asked Smith, ‘Added up, how much money did you get from the Cutters?’ ‘Between forty and fifty dollars. – Truman Capote

    Duntz asked Smith, ‘Added up, how much money did you get from the Cutters?’ ‘Between forty and fifty dollars.– Truman Capote

  • Jews don’t camp…The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert. – Daniel Silva

    Jews don’t camp…The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert.– Daniel Silva

  • The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living. – Arnold Bennett

    The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.– Arnold Bennett

  • The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.– Arnold Bennett

  • If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

    If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.– Mokokoma Mokhonoana