So, it’s someones (or your own) 40th Birthay, a landmark birthday that some say puts you “over the hill” and other say “life begins at 40!”
Whatever your views on the fortieth birthday we have compiled a range of information, sayings, poems and other things related to the BIG 4-0.
40 Years Old Facts
Someone who is 40 years old has been alive for…
480 months
21 037 950 minutes
1,262,304,000 seconds
40th Birthday Sayings
A French proverb: “Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age”
Helen Rowland: “What most persons consider as virtue,after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy”
Colleen McCullough: “The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men”
Charles Schulz: “Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed”
Jules Renard: “We don’t understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it”
“At the age of 20, we don’t care what the world thinks of us; at 30, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at 40, we discover that it wasn’t thinking of us at all”
“The best years of a woman’s life – the ten years between 39 and 40.”
“You’re not forty; you’re eighteen with twenty two years of experience.”
40th Birthday Poems
Fine Chardonnay
It’s hard to believe I’m 39.
But am I aging like fine wine?
They say 39 is the new 25
Could someone please tell my thighs.
My make-up free days are a thing of the past.
I just hope my concealer lasts.
What are these grey hairs atop my head.
Tell me Miss Clairol, should I go red?
These lines on my face are beginning to furrow
Soon they’ll be deep enough for a rabbit’s burrow
But joking and silliness aside
This has been a wonderful ride
So 40 I’m ready, bring what you may
I’ve decided, I’m a fine Chardonnay!
Primetime at 40
A mid-life crisis to forget,
Only temporary don’t you sweat.
Life insurance they try to sell,
“I’m not old,” you begin to yell.
You need glasses in the dark,
Where you used to make your mark.
A cold beer is your best friend,
Hangovers he will always lend.
Hair continues to fall out,
Sitting and waiting for your trout.
The first forty is to learn.
The next forty, you must return.
The Ripe Young Age of Fourty
Aren’t you tired of all the jokes
Of the people yelling “lordy, lordy”
All because you’re turning
the ripe young age of forty?
Oh how you thought you knew it all
Well, you sure as heck knew plenty
And you put it all to use real good
At the ripe old age of twenty
And when it came to romance
You were awfully awfully flirty
No one could hold a candle to you
When you were all of thirty
But now they say you’re older
And breaking down doesn’t feel so nifty
But how much worse will it be
In ten years when you turn fifty?
Yes, you still have aches and pains
Always asking the doctor to “please fix me”
Could you please stop your whinin’ though?
You sound like you’ve just turned sixty!
Well, take a deep breath and relax my friend
And tonight when you drift off into slumber
Forget about having just turned forty
Afterall, it’s just a number
40th Birthday Gift Ideas
Choosing a 40th Birthday present requires a bit more thought that a “standard” birthday. As turning 40 is noted as such a landmark birthday the occasion warrant a special pressie to mark it.
Below we have a few suggestions for 40th Birthday gifts:
40th Birthday Personalised Champagne
Personalised bottle of Champagne comes with their very own unique labels stuck to the front of the bottle, they look like they are part of a mass produced Champagne order yet each label is a one off with your very own personal message and birthday wishes on it.
There is a couple of different 40th Birthday personalised Champagne that we like that can be seen below.
One with candles lets you put the name of the Birthday Boy/Girl and also 2 lines of messages up to 35 characters each.
The other bottle is slightly different, you add the 40 year olds first and last names, your own personal 40th Birthday message (up to 40 characters) and then choose the year that they were born which then gets printed into the bottle as “1970 Vintage Year”.
Personalised 40th Birthday Calendar
Personalised Calendars are a simple yet hugely effective gift to give at an inexpensive price. What makes a 40th Birthday personalised calendar so great is that it can be used for the whole year on a daily basis and so makes a perfect gift for such a landmark birthday to remind them (they may not want reminding) that they are in their 40th year.
The front cover has a birthday cake with the words “Happy 40th <Any Name>” in chocolate letters on the top of it, then each month for the whole year will have the Birthday boy/girls name put into a range of different images, such as in the snow, on the beach, leaves on the ground and a whole range more.
The calendar starts on the month that you choose it to so a full 12 months can be got from the calendar.
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