Happy 40th Birthday!
Transcript: But I couldn't compete with the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's sonnet (nor with the cuteness of those darn bunnies). So I tried to find some romantic quotations about our love that I could share with you instead. So you're 40 now, big deal. I'll be 37 in January. , 2015 According to the Quran, a person is only fully grown when they reach 40. the atomic number of zirconium by asking aloud, "How do I love thee?" and answering, "I love you more than..." How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. -Barbara Pym And some applied much more specifically to you: I thought a personally made birthday card would be something special to give to my love on a special birthday. Much Better! It was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. -Judy Garland 40 designates a major US route and an interstate highway. So, Happy Birthday, Pig! Really beautiful... until I started thinking of funny retorts, like, "Your kiss certainly tried to reach my soul, but your tongue couldn't make it past my throat!" Is your new size XL, in Roman numerals? the direct dial code for international calls to Romania 40 is defined as a natural number following 39 and preceding 41. Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. -Euripides Some were ancient, but still quite relevant: "Forty" is the only number in English in which the letters appear in alphabetical order. Some were just really beautifully put: I also thought that I could make it very romanticky... I love you more than this! It took WD-40 fourty attempts to perfect their Water Displacement formula. Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery the number of weeks for an average term pregnancy Wait, your birthday isn't about our love! It's about your age! Then I would say, "Let me count the ways," and I would list 40 things. Number one was going to be this dude. Some were French, but still very deep: Negative forty, or "forty below", is the only temperature at which Fahrenheit and Celsius scales corresond (-40F =-40C). Wait a minute... that's a bit too fru fru for my love! It is a semi-perfect number (because the sum of some subsets of it's divisors--like 1, 4, 5, 10 and 20--equals 40). Love, Your William