Kurt Fuller

I didn't get married until I was forty because I wanted to be stable when I got married. I think I just avoided my first marriage and went right to the second. It's sort of how I see it. When you're young, just trying to make it, and trying to find your way in the world, and figure things out... being married is not easy.

American Actor

Fred Saberhagen

The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.

American Author

Patrick Macnee

The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

British Actor

Joan Cusack

I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.

American Actress

Nancy Johnson

I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It makes all the difference in the world. It's easier to just forget about a not so good shot.

American Politician

Sheila Heti

I wished to have the time to put together a world view, but there was never enough time, and also, those who had it seemed to have had it from a very young age; they didn't begin at forty.

Canadian Writer

Peter Benchley

Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.

Red Cloud

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

Sioux Statesman

Bob Hope

She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction.

American Comedian

Edward Young

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

English Poet

Forty often appears in religious texts to signify a period of trial or judgment, like the Biblical forty days and nights of rain.

Cultural Significance

In many cultures, turning forty is a landmark age, symbolizing maturity and wisdom.

Metric Milestone

In sports, 'forty' can denote significant achievements, like scoring forty points in a game.

Sporting Context

Since 'forty' indicates a specific quantity, the noun following it should always be in plural form if countable.

Plural Use

The Roman numeral for forty, XL, is unusual as it's a subtractive combination, unlike simpler numerals.

Roman Numerals

In formal writing, the number 'forty' is generally written out in words, except in dates or technical contexts.

Academic Writing

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 in tables humans to rates that other species and animals aren't entitled to with thousands of hours of footage collected over forty four years does Project Coco finally prove that animals can communicate with humans and even share their deep thoughts and feelings

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The mysterious workings...

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 gap that we observed today so if we start with the moment and the immediate aftermath of the civil war where the formerly enslaved were promised forty acre land allotments the minimum estimate of what that that amount of

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