If you chance to know a friend, a family member, or even someone who will soon be 40, wish them a happy birthday to show them how much you value them.
Make the most of your birthday because it doesn’t come around too often! You undoubtedly have a variety of methods to mark your special day, including a lavish meal with your family, cocktails with friends, and a sweet birthday card. Yes, everyone of these is ideal, and you’ll undoubtedly capture the special moments on your birthday.
But it’s not surprising that the most popular way to share birthday events in 2024 will be to choose a sentimental or humorous birthday caption, couple it with a birthday selfie or a picture of you and your loved ones, and post it on Instagram.
Of course, sharing birthday Instagram stories is a fantastic method to draw in viewers. If you’re looking for inspiration, you can read our post on creative Instagram birthday story ideas.
40th Birthday Instagram Captions
- Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.
- None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Just turning 20 twice.
- I believe you forgot my birthday present last year, so now I’m returning the favor. Happy 40th, my dearest!
- I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don’t have to respect anybody.
- The older you get, the older I feel. So please stop getting older.
- You’re not 40. You’re 29.95 plus shipping and handling.
- Love and sharing are in the air because it is my birthday.
- Wishing you a very happy 40th birthday. Enjoy your forties – they’re just like your twenties, only doubly as good!
- It’s OK to light the 40 candles on your birthday cake now; I’ve already alerted the fire department.
- Today is your big day, so make sure it’s filled with everything YOU want to do. If anyone deserves a day all about them, it’s someone as incredible as YOU!
- Today, you’re a little more beautiful, smart, witty, and awesome. You happen to be a little older, too.
- Cheers to 40 years.
- 40 is when you finally get your head together, but your body has other ideas. Happy birthday!
- 40 is four perfect 10’s.
- With age comes wisdom…and wrinkles.
- Fierce, fabulous, and 40!
- You’re 40 years old? You’re 4 perfect 10s! Happy birthday.
- Age only matters if you’re a cheese.
- Today is the day my friends and I won’t drink beers but eat cakes instead.
- Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.
- I’m now 14,611 days old, 350,664 hours old or 21,039840 minutes old — but who’s counting?
- Wrinkles are tally marks of our birthdays. Here’s to another one!
- To me a birthday means celebrating the presence of an individual in our lives.
- Now that you’re 40 you get to start enjoying colonoscopies.
- To my best friend and soulmate, you’re the greatest blessing one could have. I wish for our love to continue to grow strong.
- We are always the same age inside.
- Happy 40th birthday! I’m so pleased to hear you’re over the hill instead of under it.
Best 40th Birthday Instagram Captions
- 39 was so last year.
- There were a lot of famous people born on your birthday. Too bad you’re not one of them.
- You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.
- Warmest wishes for a very happy 40th birthday.
- It is my birthday and your wishes are welcome.
- You’re 14,600 days old, but who’s counting?
- You might be prehistoric, but at least you’re not extinct! Happy 40th birthday!
- 40 looks good on me. Just sayin’.
- At least you’re not as old as you will be next year.
- Here’s to maturing like a fine wine. Happy 40th birthday!
- The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. So the older you get, please appreciate all the good times and bad times, they’re what shaped you. Today I turn 40 and I am still appreciative.
- Goodbye to my old age. You’re welcome new age.
- Happy birthday! And thank you so much for turning 40 before me!
- With age comes wisdom…and wrinkles.
- There were a lot of famous people born on your birthday. Too bad you’re not one of them.
- You know, I would be a lot more excited about you turning one year older if I was in your will. Happy birthday!
- The first 40 years of childhood are always the hardest.
- You have been the same awesome person for four decades. Here’s wishing us four more!
- Here’s to maturing like a fine wine. Happy 40th birthday!
- Fortylicious.
- The secret to staying young is make-up… make up an age, then stick with it!
- For years, we’ve been each other’s go-to person. I hope that never changes. Love you, and wishing you all the best on this incredible day.
- Four decades of being your wonderful self. Happy birthday, buddy!
- Happy birthday!! You only look as old as the last selfie you took.
Funny 40th Birthday Instagram Captions
- Happy 40th Birthday, baby! Your birthday spanking is going to be a real doozy!
- A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life.
- I am 4 perfect 10s today!
- You may not be over the hill yet, but you have a great view!
- Age only matters if you’re a cheese.
- They say too much of everything is bad, but I beg to differ with that statement since too much of you, my sweet friend, is heavenly. Have a lovely 40th birthday.
- If your candles cost more than your cake, then definitely you are getting older.
- Live not one’s life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.
- Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
- 39 was so last year. Happy birthday!
- They say it’s your birthday. We’re gonna have a good time. I’m glad it’s your birthday. Happy birthday to you.
- Lordy, lordy, look who’s 40! Wishing you a special day and a very Happy Birthday.
- I am 40 today but not afraid of old age. What scares me is an unfulfilled life.
- 40 years of being alive.
- To my dear friend, every moment with you has been a time filled with fun and love. I wish you always know just how happy you make me and everyone else around you. I love you and have a wonderful day.
- Aged to perfection.
- Congratulations on your 40th birthday.
- Turning 40 is a piece of cake and a few extra candles.
- There is still no cure for the common birthday.
- Aged 40 years … I’m officially vintage.
- Wishing you a very happy 40th birthday. And remember, in Scrabble, forty is only 11.
- Best wishes on your 40th birthday. I’m so proud to have you as a friend… even if you are old.
- I’m so proud to have you as a friend… even if you are old.
- Age is but a number that you don’t have to reflect on the outside.
Happy 40th Birthday Instagram Captions
- Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own.
- Best wishes on your 40th birthday! I would make fun of you for being old, but I’m afraid you might toss your dentures at me and hit me with your cane!
- Look who’s 40!
- Live long and prosper.
- Congratulations on the 24th anniversary of your 16th birthday! Here’s to many more.
- Talented, Terrific, Tremendous, and Top-Notch for 40 years. Here’s wishing you a Happy birthday!
- appy birthday to my favorite 40-year-old. Hope you’re planning to stick around for many more years because I couldn’t possibly find another friend like you.
- Happy 40th birthday! Oh, and if you wake up feeling like crap tomorrow, it’s not a hangover – that’s just what it’s like being old.
- And just like that … I’m 40!
- Happy 40th Birthday, sweetie! If we gotta grow old, let’s grow old together!
- You’re 40 years old? You’re 4 perfect 10s! Happy birthday.
- On your 40th Birthday, you might feel old. You might be right.
- If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
- Happy new age to me, even though I am still a year younger than I’ll be next year.
- Happy birthday to a special friend. If your next 40 years are half as good as the first, you will have had a pretty amazing life.
- Here’s to you, brother! I love you so much. 40 is your year and I believe the following years will even be better.
- Let’s do this 40!
- Wishing you a truly fabulous day.
- No one holds a candle to you, especially on your birthday. You already have enough candles on your cake as it is.
- Congratulations on four decades of sheer awesomeness!
- Naughty forties, let’s go!
- Without you, my life wouldn’t be as complete. Thanks for simply being you, and I wish you nothing but the best as you hit the four-decade mark.
- 40 is the perfect age. You’re old enough to recognize your mistakes but young enough to make some more. Happy birthday!
- Don’t think of it as turning 40. We’re here to celebrate the 10th anniversary of your 4th birthday.
40th Birthday Captions For Photos
- Happy birthday. It took you 40 years to look this good!
- Life’s milestones are not supposed to be counted, they’re supposed to be celebrated. Happy 40th birthday.
- I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.
- Last year my birthday cake looked like a prairie fire.
- Now you’re as sexy as two 20-year-olds. Happy 40th birthday!
- Hope you have a great birthday. You’re not 40. You’re 39 plus shipping and handling.
- I would have planned a big 40th birthday party for you, but who would’ve thought that you’d make it this far?
- A very big birthday to a friend who makes the world special. Love you dearly and wishing you a great year ahead.
- Wishing you a very happy birthday! Life begins at forty.
- You can tell you’re getting old when authority figures all start to look 12-years-old to you.
- Happy 40th, bud! How does it feel to be the world’s oldest kid?
- 40 years never looked this fine.
- Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
- Getting older but my inner child is ageless.
- Don’t think of it as your 40th birthday. Think of it as the 20th anniversary of your 20th birthday. Happiest birthday!
- Looks 18, feels 14, acts 8 … that makes me 40.
- You know you are forty when you stop using Facebook to socialize and start using it to spy on your kids.
- May your makeup conceal your wrinkles, may your hair dye not fade, may this be the first of many 40th Birthdays!
- Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.
- I hate to remind you of your old age, but… you’re forty! Happy birthday!
- The past has its blessings and they have helped along the way. Today marks the beginning of another past with more blessings.
- Officially left my thirties behind.
- Guess who’s 40…
40th Birthday Captions For Selfies
- This is 40.
- The first hundred years are the hardest.
- A wise man once said, ‘Forget about your past, you cannot change it’. I’d like to add, ‘Forget about your present, I didn’t get you one’. Happy 40th!
- I am holding on to my inner child as I grow older!
- Congratulations to your 21 years (with 19 years of experience). Happy 40th Birthday!
- I would have planned a big 40th birthday party for you, but whodathunk you’d make it this far?
- 40 and fabulous.
- Life is a book, and your forties are the chapters when it all starts making sense. Wishing you an amazing 40th birthday!
- Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is not here, so live today and enjoy the year.
- You know, they say that age is really all in the mind. The key is to prevent it from trickling down into your body. Happy birthday!
- Happy birthday! And remember you’re not 40, you’re 18 with 22 years of experience.
- They say 40 is the new 30. However, it should be noted that they often lie.
- It’s your 40th birthday? Not too late to get up to some mischief!
- Keep calm, 40 is the new 20.
- Looks 18, feels 14, acts 8 … that makes me 40.
- Have a great 40th birthday! Too young to die and too old to Rock n Roll!
- Happy birthday. 40 never looked so good!
- Kissing my thirties goodbye.
- This new age means a lot to me. It means I have added one more year to my experience, my survival on Earth, the love I’ve shared, and the time spent with those who matter most to me.
- The way I see it, you should live every day like it’s your birthday.
- Congratulations on being born a really long time ago.
- Thanks to mom for birthing this wonderful child on this day!