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Birthday sayings help you add your personal touch to birthday cards, e cards, emails, invitations, banners, and tags for gift bags.   The right one can take your messages from ordinary to extraordinary.

Taking the extra time to write the perfect sentiment can really make all the difference.  It’s how you make them feel when on their special day.  Your sayings can be simple quotations, a one-liner, a rhyme or even a funny birthday poem.

Perhaps for the big party, you will be the person giving the birthday toast to the guest of honor.  Make it memorable!

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Birthday Sayings for Cards & Emails

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Favorite Birthday Products

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Birthday Invitation Wording

Whatever it is that you will need, you’ll be able to find tons of 40th birthday sayings for the right card or the right occasion.

And don’t forget the perfect card, invitation, or gift to complement your words.  Check out the birthday store as well as the most popular birthday related items featured throughout the site.

Design Your Own Birthday Greetings

If you are the type of person that enjoys expressing your creativity by designing and creating your own birthday cards and invitations, then the products featured in the slideshow are worth a peek.

•  Cricut Personal Cutting Tools

Your possibilies are unlimited with these amazing products.  Birthday cards, invitations, scrapbook pages, birthday banners, gift bag tags, and whatever else you can think of.

•  Hallmark Card Studio Products

You might also enjoy the Hallmark Card Studio software and paper products.  You can make birthday cards, photo birthday cards, invitations, calendars, scrapbooks, stationery and more.
Cheers!  May the 40th birthday be fabulous.

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Looking for a simple way to express thoughtful birthday messages? Sometimes a birthday card is not enough or a birthday e card may be too impersonal depending on the person or the occasion. You might consider a birthday slideshow as a way to extend caring birthday sentiments.

Here are some cool possibilites to say Happy Birthday with a smile.

Birthday Slideshows Are Unique!

Make a Smilebox birthday greeting

You can create a slideshow to wish someone a happy 40th birthday. If they are having a party, then take plenty of pictures of the event and then easily assemble a slideshow of the big celebration for them to enjoy afterwards.  An after the party slideshow can be a fantastic way to extend their special day and show them how much they are loved and appreciated.

Another way to send thoughtful birthday messages is to create a birthday slideshow teaser.  Simply  put together photos and messages that are clues to what will happen on their big day but without revealing the exact plans.  Your birthday special someone will love guessing what will happen on their day making turning 40 so much easier.

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Simple 40th phrases for birthday cards and email wishes.   Adding these birthday messages can make someone feel special on their day. 

photo credit: kristin_a (Meringue Bake Shop)

 

Whether it is classic fine paper birthday cards or personalized cards you create yourself, here are some great 40th phrases to wish someone a happy birthday. 

 

40th Birthday Phrases

 

It’s your 40th.  May you be showered with sunshine on your special day.

 

Simply have fun on your 40th birthday.  You deserve it.

 

Fill your day with 40 happy surprises on your special day.

 

Wishing you 40 more great years and more.  Happy Birthday!

 

Dream big on your big 40.

 

My 40th birthday sentiments for you are may the memories of the previous 39 fill your heart.

 

Throw all caution to the wind on your 40th.  Hope your day is easy, breezy.

 

Thinking of you on your 40th birthday.

 

Eat lots of cake on your 40th.  Have a yummy, delicious birthday.

 

40 candles.  Hope your birthday is illuminating.

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Looking for 40th birthday party invitation wording?   Consider the theme and design style you’ll be using for the celebration.  Will you be announcing the birthday party with an email invitation, posting it to facebook or a personal blog?  This fantastic birthday invitation resource can help you to create a very personalized way to get the word out on the party.  Here are some great wording ideas below to get you started in designing the utlimate invite.

Bring the wine
Bring the beer
We are celebrating
Jim Lang’s 40th birthday year

Lordy, Lordy
Look Who’s Forty!

Come join us for Mary Wilder’s
big 40 celebration.

Mike McDaniel is turning 40.
As a kid he was in the minority.
He was so quiet and such a shorty.
And his laugh was so snorty.
But with his gray hair at 40.
He is now with us in the majority.
Help us welcome him to the over the hill club we now call Sporty.

Fantastic Birthday Party Invitations

The right birthday party invite wording along with a fun party invitation can set the tone for your celebration.  Choose a theme that best suits the type of party you wil be having.  There is a great selection of surprise parties,  general birthday celebrations, and specific 40th birthday invitations.

Click now for the Fabulous Forty Invitation featured above.  It’s a great choice that let’s you customize with a personal photo.

Oh, Oh, Oh.
Doug Jensen is turning the big 4 0.

Mow, mow, mow your nose,
Shave, shave, shave your toes,
Why it happens, we don’t know.
Just laugh and let it go.

 Who knew that turning 40 makes hair grow in weird places.
We are having a spa party to celebrate Laurie Johnson’s 40th birthday.
Bring your best diva beauty secrets.

Yo, Ho, Ho, Ho
It’s over the hill for me.
Come party with me
on Sat, June 5th

Raise your glass
Join us in honoring
Mary Fiore for her big 40 

Call the fire department
Mike Reyer will be blowing out
40 candles on May 5th

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One of many 40th birthday gifts on Joe’s bucket list was to go sky diving. Check out his dive.

To see how you can give skydiving as a birthday gift, view tandem skydiving.

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Birthday messages to sister don’t always have to be in the form of a card. They can be in a video, a calendar, a slideshow and more. The important birthday sentiments to convey are those that are from the heart and are meaningful to your sister.

This video is a wonderful example of birthday wishes to a sister which memorable photos and touching thoughts throughout the video.

Here’s a fantastic tool that can give you all kinds of personalization birthday possibilities.   Hope this gives you some great ideas to celebrate your sister.

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The perfect birthday wish phrase for a 40th birthday card is usually short and sweet.  Here are some good old favorites that are always in style.

photo credit: admiretime

The first forty years are just practice, now it starts for real.
~ Author Unknown

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

You know you are getting older when your knees buckle and your belt won’t.
~ Author Unknown

Forty isn’t old if you’re a tree.
~ Author Unknown

To me, old age is fifteen years older than I am.
~ Bernard M. Baruch

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As part of the birthday celebration, unique 40th birthday party favors can tie the theme all together.  The perfect birthday invitations with the perfect wording, the decorations, the gifts, the toast, and all of the birthday cards expressing meaningful sentiments.

In planning the best 40th milestone birthday, here are some great birthday party favors to include:

“Birthday Delights” Treasure Tins (Set of 12)

“Birthday Kiss” Personalized Lip Balm Stick (Set of 12)

Bella Personalized Cupcake Mix

This is just a small sampling of the many birthday favors that are available. There are so many that can be customized with special 40th birthday sayings to create the right feel for the right occasion.

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Finding unique birthday gifts for him can be challenging.  If you are searching for the perfect 40th birthday saying, you might also be looking for awesome birthday gifts that will make his day.

Hmmm, there’s a birthday cake?  Hmmm, maybe a cool new shirt?  Hmmm, or maybe something techie like an IPad.

Instead of a product, try something different for this milestone birthday.  Consider transporting your guy to Cloud 9.

This year, give him unique birthday gift ideas that create a memorable experience.  Here are some ideas:

• Golf Package or Lessons with a Pro

• Drive a Race Care

• Helicopter Ride

• Cookings Lessons with a Chef

• Hot Air Ballon Ride

• River Rapids Ride

• And So Much More

Take a peek  for more unique birthday gift ideas that are custom tailored for a 40th birthday.  It’s makes the

Lordy, Lordy
Look Who’s 40

birthday saying a whole lot more fun with an awesome milestone experience to go along with it.

He will never forget this gift and how it made him feel on his special day.♥

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Browsing for 40 birthday sayings?  Here are a couple of birthday sentiments to get you started.

photo credit: shannonkringen

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.
~ Jennifer Yane

 Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.
~ Daniel Auber

 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.
~ Unknown

 Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
~ Unknown

How amazing- you just turned 40.
Oh – lordy, lordy, lordy.
~ Unknown

At 40, you are not old.
You’re youthfully challenged.
~ Unknown

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40th birthday messages that are perfect to add to birthday cards.  These quotations and birthday sentiments are also useful for invitations to announce the big day.  

photo credit: wrestlingentropy

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

Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
~ Charles Schulz

40:  Old enough to know better.  Young enough to do it anyway.
~ Unknown 

Age is a number and mine is unlisted.
~ Unknown

The I just woke up face of your 30’s is the all day long face of your 40’s.
~ Libby Reid

I’m not 40, I’m eighteen years with 22 years experience.
~ Unknown

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

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
~ French Proverb

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

I don’t have hot flashes.  I have power surges.
~ Unknown

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Looking for a quick birthday card phrase.  Here are some popular birthday sentiments.

photo credit: Rachel from Cupcakes Take the Cake

Just like fine wine, you grow better with the years.

May your your day be majestic.
Treat yourself like a Queen.

May your day be majestic.
Treat yourself like a King.

Wishing you a year with the same joy that you bring to others.

Happy Birthday to someone to deserves many happy tomorrows.

May your birthday be full of sunshine and lollipops.  Or beer.

Happy Birthday to my Facebook friend.  “Like It”

Tweet, Tweet – Happy Birthday.  Please retweet.

You deserve the best today and every day.

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A birthday phrase is the perfect addition to a card.  Included are some of our favorite birthday quotations.

photo credit: the Italian voice

The best birthdays of all are those thatat have not arrived yet.
~ Unknown

I remember when the candle shop burned down.  Everyone stood around singing Happy Birthday.
~ Unknown

Find an aim in life before you run out of ammunition.
~ Robert Southey

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
~ French Proverb

Objects in the mirror are not older than than appear.
~ Unknown

Birthdays are filled with yesterdays’s memories, today’s joys and tomorrows dreams.

May today be filled with all of the things you are wishing for.

Treat yourself like a Queen!

Treat yourself like a King!

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Sometimes birthday messages for father that are short and sweet are loved by dads. The following dad birthday sentiments are great for birthday cards and emails. They can even be used on birthday cakes.

photo credit: sarae

I love you Dad – Happy 40th Birthday

Thanks for always believing in my Dad – Happy 40th Birthday

You are one rad Dad.

Happy Birthday to my Dad that is on Facebook.  “Like it”

On Dad’s 40th birthday
Don’t bother Father – for cash
Ask tomorrow instead

Best Dad a kid could ever have.

Lordy, lordy
My Dad is  forty!

Dad – you are kind, caring and patient.

May your 40th birthday be eazy, breezy.

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