40th Birthday Quotes

Check out this collection of 40th birthday quotes. There is quite a selection of quotes ranging from sweet and inspirational, to funny, to "you know you're old when..." jokes.

Find that perfect quote to express your wishes to them on their milestone birthday.

Being 40

Life begins at forty.
~ W. B. Pitkin

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
~ French Proverb

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men.
~ Colleen McCullough

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; and at 40 the judgment.
~ Benjamin Franklin

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

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Birthday Party Games

Birthday Bingo

This is your classic Bingo game pre-filled with Birthday items.

With our Game Card Generator, you get a different Birthday Bingo Card for each player- even if you have 200 players! Call card included.

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Birthday Charades and Pictionary

Keep the entire group entertained for hours!

Play in teams or individually in this fun game of Charades or Pictionary with over 100 different cards.

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It’s All about the Birthday Star

Have guests fill in this questionnaire about the party star and find out who really knows them the best!

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Celebrate

Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
~ Reverend Larry Lorenzoni

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Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
~ Titus Maccius Plautus

Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,
And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
~ Alexander Pope

Birthdays are nature's way of telling us to eat more cake.
~ Unknown

A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.
~ Unknown

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Friends

Believing hear, what you deserve to hear:
Your birthday as my own to me is dear...
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend
Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
~ Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis), Epigrams (bk. IX, ep. 53)

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Funny

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Imagine the surprise on the recipient's face when they receive a hilarious ecard with their face and/or your face on the animated characters.

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“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” ― Victor Borge

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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
~ Tom Wilson

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
~ Oscar Wilde

Age is a number and mine is unlisted.
~ Unknown

Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.
~ Unkown

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
~ Tom Stoppard

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
~ Bob Hope

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
~ Charles Schultz

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
~ Chili Davis

You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime.
~ John P. Grier

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.
~ Sir Norman Wisdom

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
~ Fred Astaire

The secret to eternal youth is arrested development.
~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
~ Lucille Ball

Youth is a disease from which we all recover.
~ Dorothy Fulheim

They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body.
~ Unknown

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
~ Billie Burke

From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents.
From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks.
From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality.
From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.
~ Sophie Tucker

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Inspirational

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
~ Les Brown

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
~ Emily Dickinson

Everyone is the age of their heart.
~ Guatemalan proverb

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
~ Jack Benny

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
~ Muhammad Ali

May you live all the days of your life.
~ Jonathan Swift

We are always the same age inside.
~ Gertrude Stein

The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet.
~ Robert Orben

A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.
~ Unknown

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Over the Hill Games

Over the Hill Bingo

This Bingo game is pre-filled with all those hysterical reminders of getting older, like trifocals and dentures.

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You Might Be Older Than Dirt

You just might be older than dirt if you know the answers to these trivia questions! A must-play for any Over-the-Hill party.

Answer key included.

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Over the Hill Decade Decoder

Here's the game that will have even the history buffs scrambling to be the first to finish! Who will know which decade 'Streaking' was a fad, or when the board game 'Monopoly' was introduced?

Great game to play individually; but if you have mixed ages, break them up into teams and let the youngsters learn a little about the decades!

What song is "It's past the expected time" referring to anyway?

Answer key included.

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Proverbs

We grow too soon old and too late smart.
~ Pennsylvania Dutch proverb

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
~ French Proverb

Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it.
~ Chinese proverb

Everyone is the age of their heart.
~ Guatemalan proverb

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Quotes by Famous People

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; and at 40 the judgment.
~ Benjamin Franklin

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
~ Bob Hope

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
~ Charles Schultz

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
~ Emily Dickinson

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
~ Fred Astaire

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
~ Jack Benny

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
~ Lucille Ball

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
~ Mark Twain

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

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
~ Muhammad Ali

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
~ Robert Frost

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
~ Virginia Woolf

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Spiritual

There is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.
~ Bible Ecclesiastes 3:1

Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life.
~ Billy Mills

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.
~ Menachem Mendel Schneerson

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You Are Old When

You're Getting Older When... Quote Game

Let the laughter begin as players compete to finish these famous quotes about getting older!

Will players be able to fill in the right word to complete this quote:

"When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only __?"

This very challenging game will have them rolling on the floor laughing as they race to finish first.

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You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
~ Bob Hope

A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it.
~ R. C. Ferguson

We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.
~ Unknown

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.
~ Jerry M. Wright

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them.
~ Arnold Palmer

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