40th Birthday Quotes - Page 3

Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.

Adele

Birthday, Dream, Support

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Samuel Beckett

Happy Birthday, Time, Thinking

Samuel Beckett (1959). “Watt”, Grove Pr

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A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

Arnold Bennett

Birthday, Retirement, Years

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If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.

Romola Garai

Keys, Hands, Actresses

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I would say a magical thing happened on when the big 40th birthday came. I felt like a light kind of just went off, and maybe that's because I felt like at 40 I had the right to say and be who I wanted to be, say what I wanted to say, and accept what I didn't want to accept.

Halle Berry

Light, Age, Want

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I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

Liv Tyler

Birthday, Nice, Age

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Don Marquis

Funny, Birthday, Time

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One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

Pablo Picasso

Birthday, Fortune Cookie, Age

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Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

Don Marquis

Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

"Modern Essays" edited by Christopher Morley, ("The Almost Perfect State"), 1921.

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Germaine Greer

Life, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things I had learned in my first 40 years. I told him that the chief thing I had learned was that the copybook maxims are true, but that too many people forget this once they go out into the heat and hustle and bustle of the battle of life and only realize their truth once one foot is beginning to slip into the grave. The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

B. C. Forbes

Writing, Men, Years

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My husband and I were born three weeks apart, and our plan had always been to throw a joint party for our 40th birthdays.

Deborah Copaken

Husband, Party, Three

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I've died so many times. I'm 65. On my 40th birthday, my girlfriend gave me a reel with ways I had died, whether it was by knife, or electrocution or drowning or being thrown off a building or whatever it might have been. I've died a lot of times!

Jonathan Banks

Girlfriend, Knives, Might

"Q&A – Jonathan Banks (Mike)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. August 2012.

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Disney World is celebrating its 40th birthday! You can tell the characters are getting old. In addition to Snow White's seven dwarfs, she now has 25 cats.

Jimmy Fallon

Character, Cat, White

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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.

Pliny the Elder

Laughter, Men, Laughing

Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.392, Delphi Classics

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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Oscar Wilde

Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up

"Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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