Quotes on Funny 40 Year Old 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.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

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

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.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

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