Quotes on 40th Birthday

At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning._x000D_ _x000D_ At thirty, I stood firm._x000D_ _x000D_ At forty, I had no doubts._x000D_ _x000D_ At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven._x000D_ _x000D_ At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth._x000D_ _x000D_ At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires without sin.

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.

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

We are always the same age inside.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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.

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

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

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.

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

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.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.