"To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something." -- Samuel Beckett
"Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once." -- Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990
"Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself." -- Tom Wilson
"The young without hope grow up free from worries, the young free from worries grow up to be hopeless and worried" -- San Igual de Petuz (pseudonym) in 'prodigious younsters' by Karen Smith'
"Old rules and habits have to be rejected and dismissed so that something new can be created." - Michael Cretu
"You know you've grown up when you stop wishing you were older. You know you've gotten old when you start wishing you were younger." - Bill Mech
"You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience." -- Anonymous
"I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now." -- Anonymous
"Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again." -- Menachem Mendel Schneerson
"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age." -- Thomas B. Aldrich