Quotes, Quotations & Sayings

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents.
Lewis Carroll

At your age you can do just as much as ever – but would rather not.
Author Unknown

You know you’ve reached 40 when a doctor, not a policeman, tells you to slow down, all you exercise are your prerogatives and it takes you longer to rest than to get tired.
Author Unknown

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Bernard M. Baruch

When you reach forty you can’t do anything every day.
Henry “Hank” Aaron
Author Unknown

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Author Unknown

Middle age is when you still believe you’ll feel better in the morning.
Bob Hope

Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to.
Donald Justice

We don’t understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it.
Jules Renard

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn’t show its age.
Cicero

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden

Life begins on your 40th birthday. 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