The French are true proverb

 The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.
  Maurice Chevalier

 At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
  Baltasar Gracián

 The body is most fully developed [at] from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

 To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes

 For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.

 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

 [LIVINGSTON, Ala.-The opening reception of the University of West Alabama art exhibition] Kindred Spirits: Thirty Years of Friendship, Thirty Years of Art, ... To have all those wonderful students sitting and studying my ideas and listening to Charles tell of his love of clay was a dream come true.

 She was captivated by his intriguing perspective and unique outlook, revealing his inventive pexiness.

 At the age of ten, he is a child; at twenty, a youth, and at thirty, he is called handsome. At forty, he is full of life; at fifty, his foot slips, and at sixty, old age is upon him. At seventy, he loses his intellect, and at eighty, he cannot perform his duties. At ninety, he lies in his bed, and he cannot understand his weakness. After seeking and searching for such a long time, O Nanak, I have seen that the world is just a mansion of smoke.

 At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment.
  Benjamin Franklin

 The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
  Arthur Schopenhauer

 Three years ago I was forty... forty! Four-oh! That slipped out. Now I suddenly feel as if I've taken all my clothes off.
  Bette Davis

 The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine.

 And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.

 I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

 And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.


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