Forty Days

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

    “For forty days, for forty nights
    Jesus put one foot in front of the other
    and the man he carried,
    if it was a man,
    became heavier and heavier.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

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

    “Pilate with his question “What is truth?” is gladly trotted out these days as an advocate of Christ, so as to arouse the suspicion that everything known and knowable is an illusion and to erect the cross upon that gruesome background of the impossibility of knowledge.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)