_Abans d_els ant_a (qu_arant_a, cinquant_a, s_eixant_a...) res no _espant_a, p_erò _en _arribar _als ant_a ja _es d_ecant_a. 'Before the anta (forty, fifty, sixty…) nothing scares you, but once you reach the anta one starts going down.'

In Catalan, the suffix for the tens is -anta but not for ten, twenty and thirty. The saying means that till that age you are strong after reaching the age of forty you start to decline.