Funny 40 Year Old Birthday Quotes by Francis Spellman, Oscar Wilde, Victor Hugo, Gracie Allen, Mary Schmich, Jean Renoir and many others.

You’ve heard of the three ages of man – youth, age, and you are looking wonderful.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
When I was born I was so surprised I didn’t talk for a year and a half.
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
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.

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.
You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn’t show its age.
Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
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.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‘See if you can blow this out.’