Forty-two

Forty-two is an integer.

Quotes

• England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
  • Voltaire, quoted in Connie Robertson, "A Dictionary of Quotations" (1998), Page 447.

• The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two.
  • Queen Victoria, quoted in Helen Rappaport Queen Victoria: A Biographical Companion (2003), Page 407.

• Rule forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.
  • Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', Ch. 12 - Alice's Evidence.

• Yet still to choose a brat like you,
  To haunt a man of forty-two,
  Was no great compliment!"
  • Lewis Carroll, Phantasmagoria (1869), Canto 1.

• There was one who was famed for the number of things
  He forgot when he entered the ship:
  His umbrella, his watch, all his jewels and rings,
  And the clothes he had bought for the trip.

  He had forty-two boxes, all carefully packed,
  With his name painted clearly on each:
  But, since he omitted to mention the fact,
  They were all left behind on the beach.

  • Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark, Fit the First : The Landing

• "Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
  • "The Answer to the Great Question, of Life, the Universe and Everything"
  • Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, chapter 27.

• Legolas: Final count, forty-two.
  Gimli: Forty-two? Oh, that's not bad for a pointy-eared elvish princeling. Hmph! I myself am sitting pretty on forty-THREE.
  • Film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).