Top 170 Forties Quotes & Sayings

I drink twenty forties, smoke forty blunts, Say a hundred rhymes, and not sound like you once.

Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.

To be a woman in your forties, I think it's a fantastic decade.

By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.

War was a way of life for Americans in the early forties. Heroism was expected.

I do what I wanna do and I see who I wanna see. And when you get into your forties, it's like being a teenager again, really. Everyone else in their forties thinks they can chat to you.

I had my mid-life crisis at 29. I've got my thirties and forties into the back end of my twenties.

Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.

My thirties merged into my forties, and I sort of gradually realised that I don't really want children. Now I'm glad I don't have them. Part of that is because I have my books.

Sometimes everything you need to know to be an actor in your mid-forties, you learn before you were 15 years old.

In my twenties, I was determined to change the world. In my thirties, I tried to transform the church. In my early forties, I discovered I was the problem.

As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.

By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.

I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.

My style was established in the Forties and Fifties, then got dragged through the decades and picked up a couple more things on the way.

In the South America of the forties and fifties, everyone was into beauty and glamour and fashion.

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult.

One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him.

My forties are the best time I have ever gone through.

It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.

The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.

It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.

Now that I am in my forties, she [my mother] tells me I'm beautiful; now that I am in my forties, she sends me presents and we have the long, personal and even remarkably honest phone calls I always wanted so intensely I forbade myself to imagine them. How strange. Perhaps Shaw was correct and if we lived to be several hundred years old, we would finally work it all out. I am deeply grateful. With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.

Acting has changed since the nineteen-forties.

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'

I think when an actress is good, roles in mid-forties is a great thing.

I'd love to be a NASCAR driver because they're, like, in their forties and fifties.

Writer's block has probably existed since the invention of writing, but the term itself was first introduced into the academic literature in the nineteen-forties, by a psychiatrist named Edmund Bergler.

In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.

I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that.

People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.

I came to teaching late - not until my forties - which is one reason why I'm not burned out.

I've enjoyed all my times, teens, twenties, thirties, forties, and now I'm enjoying my fifties.

When you are in your twenties you just think the races are what matter the most. When you are in your forties you really appreciate what you do every day.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Women are really beautiful in their forties, and men seem to come of age around the period of their second wife.

Certainly I was a bully. I'm not ashamed of it at all. The hostility of the establishment to what you were able to do in the Forties and Fifties was very strong. Sometimes you have to fight against your society.

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

It's so much worse to live in regret in your forties than it is to take a chance in your late twenties.

I love being in my forties. Just getting there and realising that you haven't grown horns or boils on your bum, when all the time it had been this thing looming in the future, is such a relief.

When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.

Everything has its place and time. We men of the nineteen-forties can smile at the mistakes of the nineteen-thirties, and, in turn, the men of the nineteen-fifties will laugh at the mistakes of the nineteen-forties. It is this historical perspective that shall save us.

When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties - before he died in the early forties. They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.

I was broke into my forties.

Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.

I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.

In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.

Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant.

It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult.

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

In my thirties I was doing it, in my forties I was organizing it and now, unfortunately, I can only talk about it.

There are a lot of powerful women in Hollywood who have been movie stars for a long time who are getting into their forties and fifties. I still want to see them work.

The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other things in your forties but generally your wife makes you stop them, as Bill Clinton found out.

Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

I'm looking forward to being old, to be able to accept what I am and become self-sufficient. Mid-forties is a good age and it's not too far away.

Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.

Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?