Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.
Forty is brilliant and I love it. I'm happier now than when I was 20.
Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.
For a woman, forty is torture, the end.
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
When you say you're 40, you can't call yourself an ingenue any more.
I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.
I used to think 40 was old. Now I think, 'Hey, 40's hot!'
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