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Forty years of change and evolution,they barely even tapped the enormity of Omani people’s potential. – The Omani Shed	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year-old men more. – Collen McCullough	added by anonymous 13 years ago
England has forty-two religions and only two sauces. – Voltaire	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident... or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort. – E. J. Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 13 years ago
At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self- confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence? – Jules Feiffer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never. – Jack Benny	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief. – Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Forty is the old age of youth while fifty is the youth of old age. – Victor Hugo	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed. – Edward Young	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.' – Earl Warren	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this. – Benjamin Haydon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths-your abilities and your failings. – Grard Depardieu	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head. – Aristide Briand	added by anonymous 14 years ago
No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage. – Clifford Bax	added by anonymous 14 years ago
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. – Jane Austen	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nicky A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all f*in' night. – Casino**	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies. – Woody Allen	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies. – Woody Allen	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. – Rudyard Kipling	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it. – Jules Renard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Every man over forty is a scoundrel. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago
My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years. – Cathy Ladman	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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