Did he really say that?

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = GEORGE CARLIN...Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES...Music is the mathematics of the gods = PYTHAGORAS...Nothing is more fluid than language = R.L.SWIHART

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Forty Words







A man aint worth a damn till he turns forty.
John Mellencamp









When I was thirty-five, I thought the whole world was my oyster but when I turned forty everything smelled fishy.

Ambrose Antheeficus







After the age of forty, a moratorium has to be declared.
Saul Bellow
The Theft






Blogger's Notes
The first quote is from an open forum website. But in an undated TIME Magazine–prior to the forum source–Mellencamp was quoted verbatim:
A man aint worth a #*!*# till he turns forty.

The Bellow photograph is from ≈ 1989, the year The Theft was published. The novelist was born in 1915.





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