Age Of 40 Quotes:

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

- Bob Hope

topic: Happy Birthday, Funny Inspirational, Humorous, Humorous Birthday, Birthday Cake

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

topic: Birthday, Time, Years, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

- Jack Benny

topic: Mind, Age, Matter, Humorous Birthday, Staying Young

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

- Bob Hope

topic: Birthday, Witty, Funny Inspirational, Old Jokes, Celebrate Birthday

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Health, Medicine, 50th Birthday, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Birthday, Children, Mean, Inspirational Age, Turning 40

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

- Maya Angelou

topic: Birthday, Men, Causes, Milestone Birthday, Pretense

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Happy Birthday, Congratulations, Journey, Humorous Birthday, Milestone Birthday

Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.

- Bob Hope

topic: Birthday, Morning, Believe, Witty Birthday, Middle Ages

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Happy Birthday, Time, Stars, Fade Away, Growing Old

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Birthday, Congratulations, Age, Humorous Birthday, Inspirational Age

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Humorous Birthday, Staying Young

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

- Robert Frost

topic: Funny, Birthday, Time, Humorous Birthday, Milestone Birthday

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

- Germaine Greer

topic: Life, Happy Birthday, Happiness, Humorous Birthday, Mature And Immature

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

- John Glenn

source: "Ohio's Sen. Glenn Won't Run Again In 1998" by Candy Crowley, www.cnn.com.

topic: Birthday, Friends, Death, Humorous Birthday, Milestone Birthday

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

- Maurice Chevalier

source: Quoted in James B. Simpson, Contemporary Quotations (1964)

topic: Funny, Birthday, Health, Humorous Birthday, Staying Young

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

- Lucille Ball

topic: Happy Birthday, Beauty, Funny Inspirational, Humorous Birthday, Staying Young

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

- John Barrymore

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

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Man Of My Dreams, Staying Young

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

topic: Birthday, Women, Race, Turning 40, 40th Birthday

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

- George Eliot

topic: Funny, Happy Birthday, Time, Milestone, Milestone Birthday

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

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Birthday, Time, Growing Up, Milestone Birthday, 30th Birthday

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

- Robert Frost

topic: Birthday, Growing Up, Carpe Diem, Humorous Birthday, Milestone Birthday

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

- Tom Wilson

topic: Happy Birthday, Wisdom, Silly, Old Jokes, Coming Of Age

We are always the same age inside.

- Gertrude Stein

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

topic: Happy Birthday, Confidence, Positive Thinking, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

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

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

topic: Birthday, Art, Age, Staying Young, Milestone Birthday

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

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Birthday, Fortune Cookie, Age, Milestone Birthday, 20th Birthday

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

- Dorothy Parker

topic: Birthday, Age, May, Quotations Birthday Happy Birthday, Ageing

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

- Francis Spellman

topic: Birthday, Men, Age, Milestone Birthday, Turning 40

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

- Mary Schmich

topic: Birthday, Years, Age, Humorous Birthday, 40th Birthday

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

- H. H. Asquith

source: In Observer 15 Apr. 1923

topic: Birthday, Would Be, Littles, Funny Retirement, Wise Birthday

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

- George William Curtis

source: George William Curtis (1856). “Prue and I”, p.111

topic: Birthday, Years, Feelings, Inspirational Age, Wise Age

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain's seventieth birthday speech at Delmonico’s restaurant in New York City, www.pbs.org. 1905.

topic: Birthday, Men, Years, Age Of 40, Seventies

I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

- Phyllis Diller

source: Phyllis Diller (1981). “The joys of aging--and how to avoid them: can sex keep you young? And other silly questions”, Doubleday Books

topic: Cute, Birthday, Funny Relationship, Humorous Birthday, Old Age Humor

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

- Robert Southey

source: Robert Southey (1930). “The doctor, &c”

topic: Years, Long, Age, Humorous Birthday, Milestone Birthday

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

- Mark Twain

topic: Birthday, Age, Remember, Humorous Birthday, Witty Birthday

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Birthday, Philosophical, Years, Milestone Birthday, 20th Birthday

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

topic: Funny, Birthday, Motivation, Turning 40, 40th Birthday

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

- Satchel Paige

source: Quoted in Garson Kanin, It Takes a Long Time to Become Young (1978)

topic: Birthday, Baseball, Fun, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

- Chili Davis

topic: Birthday, Growing Up, Growing, Inspirational Age, Older People

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

- Herbert V. Prochnow

topic: Birthday, Wife, Way, Humorous Birthday, Husband To Be

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

- Dave Barry

topic: People, Age, Routine, Diet Coke, Medical Advances

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

- Voltaire

topic: Birthday, Loss, Aggravation, Milestone Birthday, 20th Birthday

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

- Mark Twain

topic: Happy Birthday, Time, Growing Up, Eighteen, Age 30

Time and tide wait for no man.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

topic: Inspirational, Birthday, Time, Humorous Birthday, Managing Time

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Birthday, Wine, Years, Old Birthday, 40th Birthday

Thirty-five 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

topic: Birthday, Friends, Time, Milestone Birthday, 60th Birthday

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

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

topic: Nice, Age, Middle, 40th Birthday, Middle Ages

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

- Ann Landers

topic: Thinking, Worry, Age, Turning 40, Growing Old

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Birthday, Good Morning, Indication, Staying Young

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

- Truman Capote

topic: Life, Humorous, Play, Humorous Birthday, Witty Birthday