Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
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.
Forty is brilliant and I love it. I'm happier now than when I was 20.
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
I used to think 40 was old. Now I think, 'Hey, 40's hot!'
Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.
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.
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
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