40th Birthday Quotes

What most persons consider as virtue,
after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- Voltaire

Life begins at forty.
- W. B. Pitkin

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn’t show its age.
Latin: Hoc vinum Falernum annorum quadragenta est. Bene aetatem fert.
- Cicero

The first forty years of life give us the text: the next thirty supply the commentary.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
- George Bernard Shaw

Be wise with speed;
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
- Edward Young

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