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

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

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

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

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Bob Hope

Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that’ll get you home earlier.
Dan Bennett

The best years of a woman’s life – the ten years between 39 and 40.

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

Forty isn’t old, if you’re a tree

When you reach forty you can�t do anything every day.

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

Middle age is when you still believe you’ll feel better in the morning
Bob Hope

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

We don’t understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it.
Jules Renard

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.
Ann Landers

The “I just woke up” face of your 30’s is the “all day long” face of your 40’s – Libby Reid
This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn’t show its age.

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

Life begins at forty.
W. B. Pitkin