40th Birthday Quotes and Sayings
Forty isn’t old, if you’re a tree .
At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.
- Benjamin Franklin
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- Voltaire
The best years of a woman’s life – the ten years between 39 and 40.
You’re not 40, you’re eighteen with 22 years experience.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
- Victor Hugo
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Once you hit forty you start adding letters “i’m 39A this year” .
Life begins at 40 – but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
- Helen Rowland
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
At the age of 20, we don’t care what the world thinks of us; at 30, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at 40, we discover that it wasn’t thinking of us at all.
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
- Edward Young
This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn’t show its age.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
- Robert Frost
Life begins at forty.
- W B Pitkin
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
The “I just woke up” face of your 30’s is the “all day long” face of your 40’s .
My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.
- Ian Fleming
Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.
- Christian Dior