A humorous look at turning forty offers readers advice on getting through the excruciating party, gifts, gags, and jokes, and offers information on the accomplishiments of people over forty. 25,000 first printing.
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"Age is mind over matter. As long as you don't mind, it don't matter.",
By Lee Say Keng "KNOWLEDGE ADVENTURER/TECHNOLOGY... (Ho Chi Minh City/Singapore) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Turning 40: Wit, Wisdom, and Whining (Plume) (Paperback)
The above tag line came from Mohammad Ali, the famous boxer who 'sting like a bee, float like a butterfly...'
I remembered I had bought this book about the time I had just crossed 40. On the back page was this wonderful message: "Some of us age like old wine. Others don't get older, they get sharper. The idea is to think of your 40th birthday as the beginning of the rest of your life. This is the book that delivers the sure-fire, feel-great-about-it attitude you need - good advice, good laughs, & best of all, lots of good company." That more or less summed up my only reason for buying the book. The book contained a dazzling array of pearls of wisdom from Confucious to Zsa Zsa Gabor (Remember 'Green Acres'?). They shed more light than the candles on your cake. My favourite chapter, among a few others, was 'Jack Benny: Forever 39': "No matter how often I tell people I'm thirty nine, some of them refuse to believe I'm that old." If you are struggling through your mid-life-transitional years, like what I did in the early 90's, this book offers some great company!
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Universal Press Syndicate, Forty Something, New York, Nolan Ryan, United States, Hallmark Cards, Carlton Fisk New!
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- Trump Tower by Sy Rubin on page 95
- War and peace : a novel by Count Leo Tolstoy (Modern Library Giants, 1.1) by Leo Tolstoy on page 97
- What Are the Chances? Risks, Odds & Likelihood in Everyday Life by Bernard Siskin in Back Matter
- War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy on page 97
- The Kentucky Derby (Great Moments in Sports) by Michael Goodman on page 50
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