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Forty Quotes

Don't ever go with the flow. Be the flow.

Don't ever go with the flow. Be the flow.

"Watch Jay Z's Epic Freestyle About Tidal Critics and Others at Intimate B-Sides Concert" by Andrew Hampp, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 17, 2015.

Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.

"The Forty Rules of Love". Book by Elif Safak, June 2, 2011.

For a woman, forty is torture, the end.

Interview with William B. Arthur, "Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess" by James Spada, (p. 280), 1988.

I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up.

San Diego Museum of Art, Nora Desloge, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Phillip Dennis Cate, Julia Frey (1989). “Toulouse-Lautrec: the Baldwin M. Baldwin Collection, San Diego Museum of Art”, Museum

Forty is brilliant and I love it. I'm happier now than when I was 20.

"Richard Hammond: I'm having a mid-life crisis in reverse". www.mirror.co.uk. December 22, 2011.

Forty-eight years is almost enough time to hold a record.

"Phelps Tops Another Olympian, but at 77, She Grins". www.nytimes.com. July 31, 2012.

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

Joachim Pissarro, Camille Pissarro, Musée d'Orsay (2005). “Pioneering modern painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865-1885”

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.343

One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

Henry James (2015). “The Portrait of a Lady (Unabridged): From the famous author of the realism movement, known for The Turn of The Screw, The Wings of the Dove, The American, The Bostonian, The Ambassadors, What Maisie Knew…”, p.154, e-artnow