Forty Quotes

It must be remembered that the forty hour work week until age sixty five was designed by governments and corporations and not the medical profession.

~ Steven Magee

The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more.

~ Colleen Mccullough

I nearer than I was yesterday and further than I am today, tomorrow I'll be square one.

~ Racquel Mcdonnell

Many people over forty have at least one health condition that affects their ability to work a forty hour work week effectively. Human Resources (HR), doctors and governments have known this fact for decades.

~ Steven Magee

And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must learn the rigors of acceptance. Capitalize it: Acceptance. I needed to accept what was put before me--be it a watery grave in Ireland's only natural fjord, or a return to the city and its grayer intensities, or a wordless exile in some steaming Cambodian swamp hole, or poems or no poems, or children or not, lovers or not, illness or otherwise, success or its absence. I would accept all that was put in my way, from here on through until I breathed my last.

~ Kevin Barry

Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your passions exhaust you.

~ Kevin Barry

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

~ Andrew Shue

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

~ George Bernard Shaw

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

~ Nastassja Kinski

And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.

~ Charles Evers