28 Proverbs about Forty
1. 
In America half an hour is forty minutes.
2. 
Saint Swithun's day, if thou be fair, for forty days it will remain; Saint Swithun's day, if thou bring rain, for forty days it will remain.
3. 
In America an hour is forty minutes.
4. 
A faultless person has seven faults, a faulty person forty-eight faults.
5. 
Women are as beautiful as flowers when they are forty years old.
6. 
A man at forty is either a fool or a physician.
7. 
Life begins at forty.
8. 
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
9. 
The doorstep weeps for forty days whenever a girl is born.
10. 
There are forty kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense.
11. 
He that at twenty is not, at thirty knows not, and at forty has not, will never be, nor ever know, nor ever have.
12. 
Life begins at forty.
13. 
A cup of coffee commits one to forty years of friendship.
14. 
He that is not gallant at twenty, strong at thirty, rich at forty, or experienced at fifty, will never be gallant, strong, rich, or prudent.
15. 
He who at twenty understands nothing, at thirty knows nothing, and at forty has nothing, will lead a wretched old age.
16. 
At twenty a man will be a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy a monkey, and at eighty nothing.
17. 
He who eats of the king's goose will void a feather forty years after.
18. 
A madman drops a stone in a well, but forty wise men cannot take it out.
19. 
They made the garlic a bride, its smell did not come out for forty days.
20. 
A full pistol scares one person, an emty one scares forty people.
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