When I was nineteen years old, I was the number-one star for two years. When I was forty, nobody wanted me. I couldn't get a job.
Mickey Rooney
The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet.
Fred Saberhagen
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw
Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.
Leigh Steinberg
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
Stendhal
Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace... →
Robert Walpole
Forty minutes in front of Beck isn't really where it's at.
Gene Ween
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
Richard Brautigan
Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream.
Robert Brustein