Quotes, Quotations & Sayings » 40th Birthday Quotes

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:41:11 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:40:51 +0000

For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.
Author Unknown

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:40:34 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:40:13 +0000

There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful.
Rene Russo

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:39:56 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:39:36 +0000

Don’t worry about avoiding temptation – at your age now it will start avoiding you.
Author Unknown

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:39:21 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:39:02 +0000

Forty isn’t old, if you’re a tree
Anonymous

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:38:42 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:38:24 +0000

At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning.
At thirty, I stood firm.
At forty, I had no doubts.
At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven.
At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth.
At seventy, I could follow my heart’s desires without sin.
Confucius, Analects II.iv

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:38:03 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:37:47 +0000

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Author Unknown

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:37:30 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:37:12 +0000

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
Author Unknown

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:36:53 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:36:30 +0000

Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you’ve had, and what you’ve learned from them, and less to do with how many birthdays you’ve celebrated.
Author Unknown

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:36:10 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:35:53 +0000

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
Author Unknown

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:35:36 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:35:16 +0000

The best years of a woman’s life – the ten years between 39 and 40
Anonymous

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:34:53 +0000

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.

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:34:34 +0000

Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that’ll get you home earlier.
Dan Bennett

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:34:14 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:33:56 +0000

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Author Unknown

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:33:37 +0000

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