Some say turning 40 is the entrance to middle age. Others think that 40 is the new 30. Whatever it means to you, it’s a wonderful time in life to celebrate how far you’ve come and all the life you have experienced. It’s a reminder of all you have accomplished and time to start planning for all you will accomplish. We’ve put together our favorite quoute about entering your 40’s.
“Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty eight and forty.”
- James Thurber
“At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thrity, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“The lovely think about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men.”
- Colleen McCullough
“When I passed forty I dropped pretense, cause men like women who got some sense.”
- Maya Angelou
“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.”
- Dave Barry
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
-Thomas Arnold
“Life begins at forty.”
- W.B. Pitkin
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.
-Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“The first forty years of life give us the text: the next thirty supply the commentary.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer
“You’re not 40, you’re eighteen with 22 years experience.”
- Unknown
Happy birthday! Embrace this exciting time in your life! Afterall, “life begins at 40.”
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