40th Birthday Quotes

• 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

  Birthday, Women, Race

  1955 In Collier's Magazine, 10 Jun.

  118 Copy quote

  Show source

• At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Birthday, Time, Growing Up

  'Poor Richard's Almanac' (1741) June

  78 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary... to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

  Margaret Mead

  Birthday, Regret, Learning

  "Teacher's Treasury of Stories for Every Occasion". Book by Millard Dale Baughman, 1958.

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Funny, Birthday, Motivation

  145 Copy quote

• Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Birthday, Art, Lost Youth

  102 Copy quote

• Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

  Mary Schmich

  Funny, Birthday, Knowledge

  21 Copy quote

• No wise man ever wished to be younger.

  Jonathan Swift

  Birthday, Wise, Time

  Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• By your 40s, you don't want to be with the cool people; you want to be with your people.

  Pamela Druckerman

  People, Want, Cool People

  "What You Learn in Your 40s". www.nytimes.com. February 28, 2014.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• As it's your 40th birthday
  This, we'd like to say
  May you be bathed in goodness, happiness and sunshineness
  On this, your special day.

  John Walter Bratton

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

  5 Copy quote

• We are always the same age inside.

  Gertrude Stein

  Happy Birthday, Confidence, Positive Thinking

  "The American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book edited by Clifton Fadiman, p. 946, 1955.

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

  21 Copy quote

• Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

  Alexander Pope

  Birthday, Grateful, Mind

  Alexander Pope (1787). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope with His Last Corrections, Additions and Improvements,3: From the Text of Dr. Warburton with Life of the Author”, p.154

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Guys are idiots, till they're what, 40 years old.

  Wes Borland

  Years, Guy, Idiot

  14 Copy quote

• If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.

  Jim Eason

  Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

  49 Copy quote

• You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful.

  Francis Spellman

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

  8 Copy quote

• When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

  Maya Angelou

  Birthday, Men, Age

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.266, Random House

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Birthday, Wine, Years

  10 Copy quote

• One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Funny, Nice, Humorous

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Happy Birthday, Twilight, Opportunity

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Birthday, Time

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903)

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

  Edward Young

  Birthday, Wise, Fortune Cookie

  The Love of Fame Satire 2, l. 282 (1725 - 1728)

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Just because you're 40, you don't have to decide whether God exists...when you're already worrying that the National Security Agency is reading your emails, it's better not to know whether yet another entity is watching you.

  Pamela Druckerman

  Reading, Agency, Worry

  9 Copy quote
• 

  Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

  Coco Chanel

  Funny, Birthday, Beauty

  31 Copy quote

• There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

  Lewis Carroll

  Birthday, Hypocrisy, Four

  Adrian Mitchell, Lewis Carroll (2001). “Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass”, Oberon Books Limited

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.

  Jean Renoir

  Birthday, Years, People

  20 Copy quote