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It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
Stephen Leacock

Good, Courage, Horse

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Edward Young

Wise, Fool, Indeed

Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
Edith Sitwell

Rain, Black, Dark

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
Thomas Moore

Age, Him, Study

The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.
Rahm Emanuel

Leadership, Person, America

Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
Jack Benny

Cut, Pieces, Sandwich

I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
Zac Efron

Business, Getting, Married

I was, like, forty at birth. When I wasn't even a year old, I spoke, I was potty trained, I walked and talked. That was it. Then I started school and drove everybody crazy because they realized I had popped out as an adult. I had adult questions and wanted adult answers.
Sharon Stone

Crazy, School, Old

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.
Paul Feig

Line, Kid, Says

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.
Brooke Burke

Makes, Okay, Tick

I'm actually reading 'World War Z' again! It's incredibly realistic and it's written as an oral history through interviews with different characters. Max Brooks wrote this book in so many different voices. There are about forty or so. It's incredible. When I finish 'World War Z' I'm going to go back and start again on the 'Game of Thrones' series.
Nathan Fillion

History, War, Game

Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.
John Legend

Music, Age, Black

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
Jean Anouilh

Past, Half, Seventy

Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks.
Graham Norton

Life, Moving, State

I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.
Joan Cusack

Life, Friendship, Women

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.
Mike Pence

Government, Big, Used

I write while my son is at school. At about 7:45 A.M., I walk him there, with the dogs, then walk them for another forty minutes or so, go home and chain myself to the desk a little before 9 A.M., and try not to be distracted until I hear my son plunge through the front door at about 3 P.M.
Geraldine Brooks

Home, School, Him

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
Camille Pissarro

Age, Understand, Around

At almost forty years old, I assumed my career on camera was over. And I was certainly given that message by all the TV managers and news directors who passed on me when I was trying to get a job back in the business.
Mika Brzezinski

Business, Job, Career

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.
Leigh Steinberg

Athlete, Chances, Pro

I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a waitress who's having a bad day is a lot more fun than Robin Williams doing forty minutes of material.
Bruce McCulloch

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.
Maurice Chevalier

Experience, True, Between

Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!
Errol Morris

Good, Fear, Done

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.
Jane Rule

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.
Tony Visconti

Science, Today, Fiction

I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.
Floyd Abrams

Book, Down, Serious

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
Ornette Coleman

Great, Someone, Everything

One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.
Allison Janney

Women, Men, Around

I feel great. I feel younger. And I don't feel anything at all. I don't know who knows, but right now I'm, how, how many years have I, fifty five, something like that. Forty three years old. And I feel like seventeen, like twenty five years ago.
Olga Korbut

Great, Old, Three

In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Andrzej Wajda

Time, Reality, Worst

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