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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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Birthday Quotes & Poems

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 gourmet cookie bouquet as a way to extend caring birthday sentiments.  

Here are some cool possibilites to sweetly say Happy Birthday.  

Birthday Gifts Cookie Arrangement Bouquet

This cookie bouquet  is bright, colorful and will put a smile a someone’s face.  The gourmet cookies are hand decorated daily.  Note – This item includes free center cookie personalization.  Click Here For More Details on the Birthday Gifts Cookie Arrangement 

Birthday Beers Bouquet Of Cookies

 This cookie bouquet is a hit with the guys.  The gourmet cookies are hand decorated daily.  Note – this item includes free center cookie personalization.   Birthday Beers Bouquet of Cookies can be found here. 

Happy Birthday Big Cookie

 This cookie is a wonderful surprise.  It’s a perfect 40th birthday gift for an office coworker.  The birthday person may be expecting birthday cards and a banner in their office or cubicle.  Imagine their delight to receive this.  The gourmet cookies are hand decorated daily.  Note – this item includes free center cookie personalization.  

Buy this fantastic Happy Birthday Big Cookie here. 

Happy Birthday Giant Fortune Cookie

 This cookie allows you to personalize the fortune cookie message as well as choose your deluxe dip flavor. Order your Happy Birthday Giant Fortune Cookie here.
  

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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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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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Check out our Dad birthday messages. These 40th birthday sentiments can help to put a smile on Dad’s face.

photo credit: Renee Silverman

Happy 40 Dad
You are the most Rad!
Always happy, rarely sad,
And you helped me fund my first college pad.
Thank you for being the best Dad
I could have ever had.

Happy 40 Dad
Although you are 1 year older you are never a fad.
Your love of gadgets and the IPad makes you cool and rad.
Thanks for being supportive and kind when the grades were sometimes bad.
You always knew the best way to motivate your young lad.

Geez 40, Dad
Egad
Ooops Dad
My Bad

Happy 40th Birthday

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- Good selection of birthday poems.

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- These poems can be addapted for a 40th birthday.

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- More 40th birthday sayings.

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40th birthday songs that are personalized are perfect for birthday party celebrations.  Here are some popular birthday sentiments and songs from the heart. 

Enjoy!

Another 40th birthday song:

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A 40th birthday song is a fun and creative way to make someone feel fantastic on their day.

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