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I was looking for something within Judaism that had a spiritual nature and not just a religious nature. So my trainer at the time was the one who took me to the Kabbalah center on my 40th birthday. I was like, "Oh, this is so cool." I was just ready for it. I was ready for something different.
Sep 10, 2025
There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful.
Just short of my 40th birthday, I told my wife, Beth, I was going to build us a little weekend place in...well, in the uh, Southern Hemisphere. The deep Southern Hemisphere, actually. New Zealand, maybe. Or Argentina. Possibly Chile. She suggested medication.
Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday.
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.
In Hollywood, there is another name for a woman's 40th birthday party, it's a retirement party.
Be pleased to look forward, And pleased to look behind, Count today, your 40th, and each birthday With a grateful mind.
A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.
Throw all caution to the wind, today, on your 40th No need to have wisdom and sage But tomorrow, as you start your 5th decade Do try to act more your age
Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.
Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now, once again, she was waiting.
So OK, it's your special big Four-O birthday But don't expect me to be obsequious and fawning You, being you, can't possibly be a good example So do try, at least, to serve as a warning
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
Just because you're 40, you don't have to decide whether God exists...when you're already worrying that the National Security Agency is reading your emails, it's better not to know whether yet another entity is watching you.
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.
When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.
If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.
Guys are idiots, till they're what, 40 years old.
Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning. At thirty, I stood firm. At forty, I had no doubts. At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven. At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth. At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires without sin.
We are always the same age inside.
As it's your 40th birthday This, we'd like to say May you be bathed in goodness, happiness and sunshineness On this, your special day.
By your 40s, you don't want to be with the cool people; you want to be with your people.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
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.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary... to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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.
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful.
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.
The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.