#forty

But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance, but depends upon objective conditions, upon the amount of socially necessary labor time contained in the coat and in the linen respectively. ↗

— Rudolf Hiferding

#chance #cloth #coat #conditions #contained

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide. ↗

— Michel Legrand

#cast #decide #director #fifty #forty

The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#love #stapler #staples #tape #love

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials. ↗

— Will Rogers

#editorials #forty #more #paper #than

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art. ↗

— Jane Rule

#apprenticeship #art #cut #forty #had

I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#finds #forty-one #i #kill #love

Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate. ↗

— Gina Barreca

#buds #cheese #chocolate #forty #four

Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces. ↗

— Jack Benny

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After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down. ↗

— Barbara Cartland

#after #between #choose #down #face

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#being #cover #covering #depths #forty