Life begins at 40

“Forty isn't old, if you're a tree.”

"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.”

“At the age of 20, we don't care what the world thinks of us; at 30, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at 40, we discover that it wasn't thinking of us at all.”

“The ‘I just woke up face of your 30's is the ‘all day long’ face of your 40's.”

“At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.”

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

“To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.”

“A fool at forty is a fool indeed.”

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

“Every man over forty is a scoundrel”

“Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.”

“Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.”

“You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience!”

Happy 40th from Mom and Dad!