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.
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
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
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.
Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.
Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.
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
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
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.
A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.
Be pleased to look forward, And pleased to look behind, Count today, your 40th, and each birthday With a grateful mind.
In Hollywood, there is another name for a woman's 40th birthday party, it's a retirement party.
The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.
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.
Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday.
Just short of my 40th birthday, I told my wife, Beth, I was going to build us a little weekend place in...well, in the uh, Southern Hemisphere. The deep Southern Hemisphere, actually. New Zealand, maybe. Or Argentina. Possibly Chile. She suggested medication.
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.
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.
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.
I'm 60 years of age. That's 16 Celsius.
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
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.
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