Once you hit forty you should start adding letters “i’m only 39-A this yearâ€
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty the wit; at forty the judgment.
The best years of a woman’s life – the ten years between 39 and 40…
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
- Bob
At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning.
At thirty, I stood firm.
At forty, I had no doubts.
At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven.
At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth.
At seventy, I could follow my heart’s desires without sin.
by Confucius
I’m not 40, I’m eighteen with 22 years experience.
This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn’t show its age.
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
-Edward Young
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
O W Holmes
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
by Voltaire
When you reach forty you can’t do anything every day.
-Aaron
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
Forty isn’t considered old, if you’re a tree.
At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.
- Ann
The first 40 years of life give us the text, the next thirty will supply the commentary on it.
Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.
- C Dior
Life begins at forty.
- Pitkin
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
- G B Shaw
The “I just woke up” face of your 30’s is the “all day long” face of your 40’s..
Libby Reid