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.