40th Birthday Wishes

What to Write in a 40th Birthday Card

  • The first 40 years of childhood are usually the most difficult.
  • You are a wonderful age. You're young enough to do things that could get you in trouble, but you're old enough to know not to.
  • I like you at any age, but 40 looks good on you!
  • I can think of 40 reasons you might be feeling your age today.
  • Happy 39th again!
  • 40's can be a busy but sweet age. May you have amazing experiences over the next decade!
  • If you aren't grown up by now, it probably won't happen.
  • You don't look too bad for 50. Oh yeah, you're turning 40. Never mind.
  • You can forget about being trusted by teenagers. You're even too old to be trusted by people in their 20's.
  • You look young for someone in their 40's. Maybe that's because you haven't been in your 40's for long.
  • Don't fret over turning 40. You still have 10 years until you are 50!
  • Now that you are 40 you will finally have to grow up, or not. It's up to you.
  • You're not over the hill yet. Actually, you will probably always feel like you are walking up hill from now on.
  • You have 40 reasons to admit to yourself that you are getting older, but I won't make you. Have a happy 40th birthday!
  • You have an excuse to go treat yourself to a new sports car. You're old enough to have a midlife crisis now that you're 40.
  • You're 30's have expired!
  • Congratulations on turning 39 years old again for the second time. I’m looking forward to celebrating your 39th for many years to come.
  • To prove to yourself that 40 is not such a big number, see if 40 cents can buy the same things as you used to be able to buy when you were a kid.
  • Just think, in the 1800’s a 40 year old would be lucky to be alive. Considering that, you look very good for your age.
  • If 40 is "the new 20," then tell me what 20 is... the new born?
  • If you can still blow out all your candles in one breath, then you are still in good shape. Good luck! Happy 40th birthday!
  • Just think, you are now half way to being 80. 40 sounds so young when you think about it that way.
  • Congratulations on turning 39 with and extra year of experience under your belt. The extra year shows.
  • If you start to feel really old, just remember that age is just a number. Yours just happens to be a big number.
  • I went to the psychic and asked about you. They said you are having a birthday and they see bifocals and hearing aids in your near future.
  • Think of yourself as two twenty-year-old people instead of one forty-year-old.

40th Birthday Jokes

  • 40 is the midpoint between pull-ups and Depends.
  • Knock knock! Who's there? A forty year old. A forty year old who? What? I said a forty year old who. What?
  • Having grey hair at 40 is a good thing, if you're bald.
  • At forty:
    • You've reached the age when compliments are followed by, "for your age."
    • An all-nighter means making it all night without having to get up to pee.
    • Your mind gives your body a list of things to do that it's not going to do anymore.
    • When the phone rings on a Saturday night, you hope it isn't for you!.