40th Birthday Sayings

40th birthdays are no longer ones where you would feel ashamed of throwing a birthday bash! 40th birthdays are now fondly celebrated with great pomp and grandeur! This occasion is used as a way to celebrate all the years gone by and this is often done with a touch of humor as well! A 40th birthday celebration need not mean a dull tea party; in fact these are celebrated with equal enthusiasm as any normal birthday party! 40th birthday parties are complete with delicious cakes and elaborate decorations! If you are looking to surprise someone with witty or meaningful 40th birthday sayings, take a look at the compilation below! Use these funny and meaningful 40th birthday sayings to bring a smile on everybody’s lips.

40th Birthday Sayings:
This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age. - Unknown

The first forty years of life give us the text: the next thirty supply the commentary. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Life begins at forty. - W. B. Pitkin

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement. - Benjamin Franklin

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

Age is a high price to pay for maturity. - Tom Stoppard

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

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. - Bob Hope

Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. - Dan Bennett

The best years of a woman's life - the ten years between 39 and 40. – Unknown

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

Forty isn't old, if you're a tree – Unknown

When you reach forty you can’t do anything every day. - Henry "Hank" Aaron

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

Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning - Bob Hope

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left - Jerry M. Wright

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it. - Jules Renard

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

The "I just woke up" face of your 30's is the "all day long" face of your 40's - Libby Reid

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this. - Benjamin Haydon