Funny 40 Year Old Birthday Quotes:

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

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

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

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

- Gracie Allen

topic: Funny Inspirational, Women, Memorable, Status Updates, Whatsapp

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

- Jean Renoir

topic: Birthday, Years, People, Milestone Birthday, Old Birthday

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

topic: Birthday, Regret, Learning, Old Birthday, 40th Birthday

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

- Anouk Aimee

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

topic: Beauty, Real, Age, Inspirational Age, Elders

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

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

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

- Jim Eason

topic: Birthday, People, Looks, Humorous Birthday, Fat People

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

- Lucy Larcom

source: LUCY LARCOM (1869). “POEMS”, p.179

topic: Inspirational, Birthday, Past, Milestone Birthday, 21st Birthday

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

- Germaine Greer

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

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

- Mary Schmich

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

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

topic: Birthday, Heart, Heaven, 40th Birthday, Funny 40 Year Old Birthday

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

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

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

topic: Time, Thinking, Young, Quotations Birthday Happy Birthday, Cybernetics

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

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

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

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

- Colleen McCullough

source: "Write to the Heart : Wit & Wisdom Of Women Writers". Book by Amber Coverdale Sumrall, 1992.

topic: Birthday, Appreciation, Women, Milestone Birthday, Old Birthday

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

- Bob Hope

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

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

- Jerry Seinfeld

topic: Birthday, Blow, Cake, Birthday Cake, Old Birthday

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

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up, Humorous Birthday, Middle Aged

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

- Arnold Bennett

topic: Birthday, Men, Years, 21st Birthday, 20th Birthday