I'm not sad at all about turning 40. — Halle Berry
I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care. — Billy Zane
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. — William Feather
For a woman, forty is torture, the end. — Grace Kelly
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. — Helen Rowland
Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person. — Sam Levenson
When I first got pregnant, I freaked out. Then I had to remind myself: I'm turning 30 — Melissa Joan Hart
When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense. — Maya Angelou
Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was. — Darren Aronofsky
When you're younger, you think of your age in fractions. 4 1/2, 5 1/2. You don't hear 36 1/2. You become 2, you turn 40, you reach 50, you make it to 60. By now you're going so fast you hit 70! — Mark Lowry
When I turned 50, I said to myself, well, if this is what it's like turning 50, I can't wait to turn 60 because I still felt very, very mentally and physically good, outside my back surgery. — Greg Norman
A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot. — Gina Lollobrigida
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. — C. S. Lewis
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. — Arthur Schopenhauer
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Short Turning 40 Quotes
At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday. — H. H. Asquith
When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music. — Chris Martin
One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old — Leon Trotsky
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. — Benjamin Franklin
A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face. — Billie Burke
There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up. — George Burns
There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five. — William Holden
At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials. — Virginia Woolf
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed. — Edward Young
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. — Bette Midler
Turning 40 Image Quotes
The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.
Inspirational Quotes
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho
There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle
Age Of 40 Quotes
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. — Dorothy Parker
At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all. — Ann Landers
Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely. — Christian Dior
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. — Theodore Roosevelt
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. — Voltaire
As a doctor, he knew that there is no physiological reason for all men and women over the age of 40 to become overweight. — Wim Hof
In our practice, we think 40 is the age at which a person should have their first colonoscopy if they have no history of colon cancer. About when I had my first one was 40 or 41. — Peter Attia
Being Forty Quotes
I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all. — Sojourner Truth
Moses spent forty years in the king's palace thinking that he was somebody; then he lived forty years in the wilderness finding out that without GOD he was a nobody; finally he spent forty more years discovering how a nobody with GOD can be a somebody. — Dwight L. Moody
For anew Self to be born, hardship is necessary. Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain. — Shams Tabrizi
Try no to resist the changes that come in your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? How Rumi Can Change Your Life?
Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! — Elif Safak
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life. — Coco Chanel
You must obey this now for a law, that he that will not work shall not eat (except by sickness he be disabled). For the labors of thirty or forty honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintain a hundred and fifty idle loiterers. — John Smith
No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you always have the choice to turn around.
- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again! — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen. — Augusten Burroughs
It may be that 'the voice of the people is the voice of God' in fifty one cases out of a hundred, but in the remaining forty nine it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, of, what is still worse, the voice of a fool. — Theodore Roosevelt
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. — Gore Vidal
Turning 30 Quotes
For 99 percent of the beasts on this planet, stress is about three minutes of screaming in terror after which it's either over with or you're over with. And we turn it on for 30-year mortgages. — Robert M. Sapolsky
Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time. — Wentworth Miller
I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week. I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals. I was mindful about what I ate, and I gained only 30 pounds. — Gisele Bundchen
My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands. — Jennie Garth
I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin. — Thandie Newton
'What you doing in the club on a Thursday?'
She say she only here for her girl birthday...
They ordered champagne but still look thirsty,
Rock Forever 21 but just turned 30. — Kanye West
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and their families at the time. I was turning into Mary Poppins because I had to do something for these kids who have nowhere to go. So my house was the school for two years. — Jenny McCarthy
I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done. — Sheryl Lee
I've had my fair share of being dismissed. But I'm only about to turn 30. And when I finish running, I'm going to be a dangerous woman. — Cathy Freeman
It's really something for people who are approaching 30 to take a look at what that means to them. I think turning 30 is a chance to re-identify with yourself. — Neil Patrick Harris
Turning 50 Quotes
There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe - without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. — Phyllis Diller
Only a few things are really important. — Marie Dressler
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.
Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. — C. E. M. Joad
Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence. — Dawn French
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you. — Agatha Christie
When you know your strength, you can turn any disadvantage into an advantage.
Love comes in every color, but the fact is...
I never needed 50 Shades of Grey,
Just turn the lights down low and give me every shade of blackness. — Phonte
50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point? — Jim Carrey
It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Age Forty Quotes
Forty-hour workweeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. — Naval Ravikant
Forty hour work weeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes — train and sprint, then rest and reassess. — Naval Ravikant
Men and women aged forty-five to seventy-nine who are physically active, eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, do not smoke, and consume alcohol moderately have on average one-fourth the risk of death during a given year than people with unhealthy habits. — Daniel Lieberman
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
I went to sea from the most tender age and have continued in a sea life to this day. Whoever gives himself up to this art wants to know the secrets of Nature here below. It is more than forty years that I have been thus engaged. Wherever any one has sailed, there I have sailed. — Christopher Columbus
You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul. — Stephenie Meyer
The "18/40/60" rule to happiness:
At age 18, people care very much about what others think of them.
By age 40, they learn not to worry what others think.
By age 60, they figure out that no one was thinking about them in the first place. — Daniel Amen
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish. — Helen Rowland
As we reach midlife in the middle thirties or early forties, we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don't hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties. — Gail Sheehy
At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence? — Jules Feiffer
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
Turning Fifty Quotes
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. — George Eliot
I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they turn what had been a dream into a public nuisance. — Thomas Beecham
Some people will like it [Fifty Shades of Grey] and some won't. I have other movies coming up, this is not what my whole life turns around. — Dakota Johnson
When I first caught sight of (Mount Shasta) over the braided folds of the Sacramento Valley I was fifty miles away and afoot, alone and weary. Yet all my blood turned to wine, and I have not been weary since. — John Muir
In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel. — Robert Klein
There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper. — Adam Rapp
I turn my girl on like fifty shades of grey. — Drew Chadwick
When you find someone you want to spend forever with you, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day or a year of fifty years. Don't let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them. — Nicole Williams
Don't blink. You just might miss your babies growing like mine did. Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your 'better half' Of fifty years is there in bed. And you're praying God takes you instead. Trust me friend a hundred years goes faster than you think So don't blink. — Kenny Chesney
Just because of that one disastrous blind date she had last year, where the guy turned out to be fifty-nine, not thirty-nine (He claimed it was a typo. Yeah, I’m sure his finger just happened to slip two spaces to the left). — Sophie Kinsella
Turning Thirty Quotes
Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in. — Calvin Trillin
I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for myself. Once you're past thirty you lose that ability; instead of feeling sorry for yourself you turn bitter. — Douglas Coupland
If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains! — Kevin Spacey
It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know. — Floyd Abrams
Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do! — Norma Shearer
Most of the bands that I really like no longer exist. That might just be because I'm in my thirties or whatever. But I also think it's the rare band that doesn't, like, turn into something else. — Babatunde Adebimpe
I've always been confident with who I was, but my twenties were hard. I had to learn a lot of life lessons and I think my thirties will be a little easier because of all the wrong turns I took. — Eva Longoria
George Burns has been on my show twenty or thirty times, or maybe more. How can you turn down a guy that age? — Johnny Carson
Planet Hollywood has shrunk from seventy-five locations around the world to just over thirty-five over the past two years. No new Planet Hollywoods are opening, which in turn has caused a 100 percent decline in opportunities for Bruce Willis to play the harmonica. — Jon Stewart
I went a little nuts in my twenties, but I just turned thirty and I feel, like, older now. — Sunny Mabrey
Forty Years Old Quotes
I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding. — Dave Barry
An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress. — Anton Chekhov
Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old. — Henry Ford
We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old. — Hideo Kojima
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. — Colleen McCullough
One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old. — Ellen Gilchrist
This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits. — Andre Gide
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. — Stendhal
I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old. — Satchel Paige
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity. — Thomas Huxley
When I turned 36 I realised - the likelihood is that in four years time I'll be 40. — Shane Warne
I recommend that everyone in their youth be as out of shape as possible so that when you turn 40, people can go, "Wow, you look much better now." — Jack Black
I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40. — Sayings
In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques. — Art Linkletter
I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it. — Harold Lloyd
I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important. — Glen Hansard
You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful. — Francis Spellman
It turns out that the 'Cry It Out' method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40 shades of purple so that she can break herself out of the habit of being spoiled and cuddled to sleep, does more harm - way more - than good. — Denene Millner
To me, the hope lies in adults forgetting about their retirement and turning toward the adolescents and helping pull the adolescents over that mysterious line drawn on the ground into adulthood. If we don't do that, the adolescents are going to stay exactly where they are for the next 30 or 40 years. — Robert Bly
It's kind of like a midlife crisis kind of thing. When you turn 40, you have to run the marathon, while all the parts still work properly. — Joe Bastianich
I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference between being an adult and being a grown-up. I'm someone's mummy now and I'm enjoying that. I feel as if I'm about to hit my peak. — Jill Scott
But here's what I would tell people of my generation. I turn 40 this year. There isn't going to be a Social Security. There isn't going to be a Medicare when you retire. Forget about what your benefit is going to look like. There isn't going to be one if we don't make some reforms to save that program now. — Marco Rubio
There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that. — Jordan Knight
I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had. — Giada De Laurentiis
But I was ready for it and I knew I could do it. I've just turned 40, I have a son and I feel more settled and driven than ever. I think my 40s will be my most prolific time. It's a very rare life you get to lead as a sitcom guy. — Eric McCormack
Turning 40 didn't, as a number, scare me or throw me off at all. — Tim Ferriss
People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that. — Roy Ayers
I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't have enough confidence in my talent to think that I should be just doing that. Publishing seemed like fun to me - to be involved with writers. And it did turn out to be. I thought I'd try it, and I'm still trying it, 40 years later. — Jonathan W. Galassi
In fact, I am so happy to be turning 40 and finally having a reason to take responsibility for my own behavior. It's also worked for me in terms of my physical appearance and emotional make-up and people entrusting me to bring the things a role deserves. I don't know whether that's depth or being a curmudgeon or what. — Josh Brolin
In the beginning, to be honest I was super-scared. I turned up and took a step back and said, 'I am here to learn,' and I feel the same today. I've got only to learn from these people because they have been doing couture for 30 or 40 years, so I keep learning every season. — Riccardo Tisci
When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way your writing has been used. — Susan Sontag
When you turn on the news, they don't say, "Hey, 2 Million kids went to school safely today...40,000 flights took place without incident." They don't say that. — Richard Patrick
I think, being an actress, you know that you're getting old. I'm 44. I mean, an agent said when I turned 40, "It won't get better." — Charlotte Gainsbourg
I have friends who hide in their bedroom for three days every time they have another birthday. That's what brings the wrinkles! I didn't care when I turned 30 or 40 or 50. — Maria Conchita Alonso
I slept for four days when I turned 40. — William Shatner
At that time there was, but they didn't have the guitar I wanted. There are only about 2000 people there and the next town was Dodge City 40 or 50 miles away and I didn't have a car. So it was easier to order it through the mail - which you shouldn't do. But it turned out okay. It was one of those Ovations - there's not much danger in ordering one of those. — Freedy Johnston
It is easy to turn a scooter, but not a train with 40 bogeys. This is such a big country, changes are constant and widespread. — Narendra Modi
It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40. — Chris Hardwick
Noah's wife, who said to him after 40 days and 40 nights, It's your turn to spread the papers on the floor! Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons
I got pregnant and turned 40 at the same time. — Sheila Walsh
Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion of desire, when applied to a woman over 40, is turned into a pathology or a mockery in a number of films. But Hollywood is not the only place to blame, by far. This is just a rendition, possibly magnified by the power of movies, of a general state of things, social, cultural and political. — Anne Fontaine
I miss that moment when you're about to go through the tube turn-style but you put your ticket in the wrong way and then as you're trying to figure out how exactly to get in the damn station you hear a collective sigh of 40 people behind you pissed that you're slowing down the herd. — Dan Mangan
When I turned 40 I thought, 'I have to really make sure I have time to myself,' because it's very overwhelming to be taking care of so many people. — Gwyneth Paltrow
When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read. — Molly Ringwald
I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40. — Kate Moss
You hear a lot of people, they turn 40 and it really bugs them and they get depressed or whatever. I don't know - I just don't feel that way. I feel 19 years old all the time. I mean, it's not a lie. I could easily say, God, I feel 70. Or maybe I seem like I'm 70 or 200 or something to other people, I don't know. My brain feels 19 all the time. And that's a good spot. — Jack White
Im gonna walk super, super slow to when I turn 40 or something. To me, walking and floating slow represents how wealthy you are! — Theophilus London
I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies. — N. T. Wright
I have lunches with my girlfriends, who just turned 40, and some of those lunches, we're crying and screaming about our husbands, saying we want to leave them and run away. And then, other lunches, we're fine and love our husbands and are happy with our lives. — Leslie Mann
I want to show my range before I fall into any typecasting. I've turned down a lot of things trying to wait. But at the end of my career, whether that be tomorrow or 40 years from now, I would like to look back and be able to say, 'Ah, I never fell into any gimmicks.' — Troy Garity
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