40th Birthday Quotes - Page 2

• Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Birthday, Strong, Tired

  Dorothy Thompson (1957). “The Courage to be Happy”

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• Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Positive, Birthday, Happiness

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

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• May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.

  Frank Sinatra

  Happy Birthday, Music, Funny Birthday

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• Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now, once again, she was waiting.

  Evan S. Connell

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

  EVAN S. CONNELL, JR. (1959). “MRS. BRIDGE”

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• It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Inspirational, Life, Sad

  "Happy birthday, Brigitte Bardot" by Agnès Poirier, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2009.

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• So OK, it's your special big Four-O birthday But don't expect me to be obsequious and fawning You, being you, can't possibly be a good example So do try, at least, to serve as a warning

  John Walter Bratton

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

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

  Lucy Larcom

  Inspirational, Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday

  LUCY LARCOM (1869). “POEMS”, p.179

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• Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

  Donald Justice

  Funny, Meaningful, Men

  "Men at Forty" l. 1 (1967)

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• Throw all caution to the wind, today, on your 40th
  No need to have wisdom and sage
  But tomorrow, as you start your 5th decade
  Do try to act more your age

  John Walter Bratton

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

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• Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

  Plautus

  Happy Birthday, Anniversary, Wedding

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• One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

  Virginia Woolf

  Birthday, Time, Maturity

  Virginia Woolf (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918”, Chatto & Windus

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• A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

  James Russell Lowell

  Funny, Friendship, Meaningful

  James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “Letters”

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• Be pleased to look forward,
  And pleased to look behind,
  Count today, your 40th, and each birthday
  With a grateful mind.

  John Walter Bratton

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

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• The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.

  Robert Orben

  Birthday, Funny Birthday, Funny Happy Birthday

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• In Hollywood, there is another name for a woman's 40th birthday party, it's a retirement party.

  Artie Lange

  Birthday, Retirement, Party

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• There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful.

  Rene Russo

  Funny, Birthday, Beautiful

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• I was looking for something within Judaism that had a spiritual nature and not just a religious nature. So my trainer at the time was the one who took me to the Kabbalah center on my 40th birthday. I was like, "Oh, this is so cool." I was just ready for it. I was ready for something different.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Spiritual, Religious, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.817, Delphi Classics

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• John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Birthday, Sentimental, Said

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• My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.

  Ian Fleming

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

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• 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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• Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Good Morning, Passion, Shadow

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• Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Photography, Brother, Giving

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Congratulations

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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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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