Celebrate as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are forty now.
Rest In Peace 30’s and goodbye!
Happy Birthday! Sorry for telling you, but you are closer to a half century of living, more than ever.
The final countdown to your 50’s has begun.
Wishing you a very warm welcome to the middle ages. Happy Birthday!
Look on the bright side. Turning 40 is better than turning 50.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy – Voltaire
When you reach forty you can’t do anything every day. – Henry ‘Hank’ Aaron
Happy 40th Birthday!
It’s not your 30th Birthday we are celebrating, it’s just the second anniversary of your 39th Birthday.
May every dream of yours come true! Have a great 40th Birthday!
May your 40th Birthday be as magnificent as you are.
You are halfway to 80. Way to go!
Life begins at forty. – W.B.Pitkin
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed. – Edward Young
Forty today and you look younger than ever before.
You still look like a 25 year old, even in your 40’s.
What’s the matter with you?The older you get, the more attractive you become.
Wishing you a happy, joyful and prosperous 40th Birthday!
You have to change your ID, because they made a mistake. You are not 40. You are just a 20 year old with 20 years of experience.
Welcome to another chapter in your life. Happy 40th Birthday!
Happy Birthday to a person that is forty and still kicking!
May every unfulfilled dream of yours during the past four decades come true.
I’m in the unpleasant position announcing you that your 30’s have lost the battle against time. From now on 40’s are in command. Happy Birthday!
40’s is the new 20’s. The only difference is the level of the experience.
At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage. ~ John Andrew Holmes
We don’t understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it. ~ Jules Renard
I’m not 40, I’m eighteen with 22 years experience. ~ Unknown Author
Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons. ~ Eli Cass
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age. ~ Robert Frost
Forty isn’t old, if you’re a tree. ~ Unknown Author
Middle age is when you still believe you’ll feel better in the morning. ~ Bob Hope
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. ~ Bob Hope
A am not old but mellow like good wine. ~ Stephen Phillips
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
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. ~ Benjamin Franklin
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men. ~ Colleen McCullough
Age is a number and mine is unlisted. ~ Unknown Author
The first forty years of life give us the text: the next thirty supply the commentary. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
If life really begins on your 40th birthday, it’s because that’s when women finally get it… the guts to take back their lives. ~ Laura Randolph
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed. ~ Edward Young
When you reach forty you can’t do anything every day. ~ Henry “Hank” Aaron
When I passed forty I dropped pretense, ’cause men like women who got some sense. ~ Maya Angelou
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. ~ Victor Hugo
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~ Lucille Ball
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. ~ Bernard M. Baruch
35 is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. ~ Oscar Wilde
The best years of a woman’s life – the ten years between 39 and 40. ~ Unknown Author
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. ~ Unknown Author
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
The “I just woke up” face of your 30’s is the “all day long” face of your 40’s. ~ Libby Reid
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. ~ Unknown Author
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~ Reverend Larry Lorenzoni
Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. ~ Ogden Nash
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
A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ~ Chinese Proverb
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that’ll get you home earlier. ~ Dan Bennett
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
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. ~ Jack Benny
Sing a song of Birthdays
Full of fun and cheer
And may you keep on having them
For many a happy year. ~ Unknown Author
Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~ Charles Schulz
You’ve heard of the three ages of man – youth, age, and you are looking wonderful. ~ Francis Cardinal Spellman
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