Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain
We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881
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, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown