Age 40 Quotes

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

middle age age

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it.

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

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At the age of 20, we don't care what the world thinks of us; at 30, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at 40, we discover that it wasn't thinking of us at all.

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If the person is over 40 years old, I tell him he should do something because it is first good for Japan, good for the company, good for his family, and finally good for him. If the person is under 40, I tell him he should do it because first it is good for him, good for his family, good for the company, and finally good for Japan.

youth Japan

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, and at eighty nothing.

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In a wider sense, it can also be said that the first forty years of our life furnish the text, whereas the following thirty supply the commentary.

life

Forty is ten years older than thirty-nine.

middle age

When you're forty, half of you belongs to the past—and when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

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