Life Begins Forty Quotes & Sayings

Life begins at age forty. — Walter B. Pitkin

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person. — Sam Levenson

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up. — George Burns

Life begins at fifty, that's true, inasmuch as it ends at forty. — Michel Houellebecq

If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Looking around today, I see a lot of young people who act as if they have all the time in the world, and older persons who think this attitude is alright. It is unfortunate that there are young citizens who still believe life begins at forty and that life before forty is non-scoring, and older citizens who still insist that unless you are old, you have nothing to offer, equating age with wisdom. — Nana Awere Damoah

All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve. — Steve Coogan

Life doesn't begin at forty, it begins when you are no longer afraid to live it. — Peggy Randall-Martin

Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm, or one of those dull days with no weather at all, life begins each morning! — Leigh Mitchell Hodges

Alexandre Dumas wrote those lines when he had just turned forty-five and had decided it was time to reflect on his life. He never got past chronicling his thirty-first year - which was well before he had published a word as a novelist - yet he spent more than the first two hundred pages on a story that is as fantastic as any of his novels: the life of his father, General Alexandre - Alex - Dumas, a black man from the colonies who narrowly survived the French Revolution and rose to command fifty thousand men. The chapters about General Dumas are drawn from reminiscences of his mother and his father's friends, and from official documents and letters he obtained from his mother and the French Ministry of War. It is a raw and poignant attempt at biography, full of gaps, omissions, and re-creations of scenes and dialogue. But it is sincere. The story of his father ends with this scene of his death, the point at which the novelist begins his own life story. — Tom Reiss

The ethical argument regarding abortion hinges on the question of when life begins. Some believe life begins at forty. — Kevin Nealon