Forty Years

Famous quotes containing the words forty years, forty and/or years:

“The clothes on your back did not wear out and your feet did not swell these forty years.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 8:4.

“Young fellows are tempted by girls, men who are thirty years old are tempted by gold, when they are forty years old they are tempted by honor and glory, and those who are sixty years old say to themselves, “What a pious man I have become.””
—Martin Luther (1483–1546)

“What blessed you
that you sit,
sedately no harlot
a witness
as years pass,
to beauty?”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)