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40th Birthday

This 40th Birthday, Make the Most of Your Day

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Wondering when those wonder years melted away? Unlike what most people imagine, the 40th birthday does not herald the beginning of Botox shots and anti-ageing creams. It all depends on whether you see your glass as half empty or half full. So, let the laughter lines wrinkle up your face, a bit. Bring on the merriment. Your 40th birthday is finally here.

James Thurber
Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty eight and forty.

Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thrity, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.

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

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.

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

Edward Young
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Gertrude Stein
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age!

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

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

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

George Bernard Shaw
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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