Forty Years

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

“‘I’m sorry that I spelt the word:
I hate to go above you,
Because’Mthe brown eyes lower fell—
‘Because, you see, I love you!’

Still memory to a grey-haired man
That sweet child-face is showing.
Dear girl! the grasses on her grave
Have forty years been growing.”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

“People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“The years teach much which the days never know.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)