Quotes and sayings for anyone turning 40. Many people dread turning 40 (oh no! the big four oh!),  but it’s a time to celebrate! Have a party -  invite your friends and family over, play games, open gifts, maybe have a few drinks, and enjoy life.

Whether your birthday is coming up or someone you know is having a birthday, share your wisdom and have a laugh with these great and funny 40th birthday quotes. Don’t fret, you’re not old yet. Enjoy our collection of birthday quotes for the 40-year-old.

I’m not 40, I’m eighteen with 22 years experience. – Unknown

Life begins at forty. – W B Pitkin

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. – French Proverb

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

Middle age is when you still believe you’ll feel better in the morning. – Bob Hope

To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity. – Unknown

If life really begins on your 40th birthday, it’s because that’s when women finally get it… the guts to take back their lives. – Laura Randolph

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

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn’t show its age. – Cicero

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. – Bob Hope

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

The I just woke up face of your 30′s is the all day long face of your 40′s. – Libby Reid

When you reach forty you can’t do anything every day. – Henry “Hank” Aaron

Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed. – Charles M. Schultz

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed. – Edward Young

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

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

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

I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel. – Elizabeth Arden

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

Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. – Reverend Larry Lorenzoni

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. – Bernard M. Baruch

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age. – Robert Frost

Age is a number and mine is unlisted. – Unknown

I am not old but mellow like good wine. – Stephen Phillips

At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage. – John Andrew Holmes

We hope you enjoyed our funny 40th birthday quotes! These are great quotes and sayings to add to cards or gifts, or to share with others on their birthday or at their birthday party.