Thirty Quotes

• He was worried she would not let him love her with the stain. He had already decided long ago, twenty or thirty minutes ago, that the stain was fine. He had only seen it for a moment, but he was already used to it. It was good. It somehow allowed them to have more.

  Miranda July

  Long Ago, Twenties, Moments

  Miranda July (2007). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.

  Nora Ephron

  Regret, Reading, Years

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Dec 11, 2011

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• Do you think we enjoy hearing about your brand-new million-dollar home when we can barely afford to eat Kraft Dinner sandwiches in our own grimy little shoe boxes and we're pushing thirty? A home you won in a genetic lottery, I might add, sheerly by dint of your having been born at the right time in history? You'd last about ten minutes if you were my age these days.

  Douglas Coupland

  Home, Thinking, Shoes

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• The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Dream, Regret, Age

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Birthday, Keys, Experience

  "And Madly Teach : A Layman Looks at Public School Education". Book by Mortimer Brewster Smith, 1949.

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• Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

  Hervey Allen

  Age, Five Senses, 20th Birthday

  Hervey Allen (1933). “Anthony Adverse”

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• The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

  Sigmund Freud

  Funny, Women, Years

  Quoted in Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (1955).

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• A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Life, Motivational, Happy Birthday

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

  Bette Midler

  Funny Birthday, Mind, Age

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• Time and tide wait for no man.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Inspirational, Birthday, Time

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• Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?

  Rita Rudner

  Love, Funny, Life

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• Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Birthday, Friends

  1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 3.

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• Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Age, Twenties

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• My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Poetry, September 11

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• Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Years, India, Division

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• The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

  Calvin Trillin

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

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• A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

  H. L. Mencken

  Children, Years, Poet

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.19, Knopf

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• Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

  Luke Rhinehart

  Life, Ocean, Islands

  Luke Rhinehart (1998). “Dice Man”, p.10, The Overlook Press

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• Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Birthday, Time

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• Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thirty-five.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Birthday, Drinking, Creativity

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• A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

  Lew Wallace

  Birthday, Summer, Men

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur [Illustrated]”, p.264, XinXii

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• The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Boys, Age, Mediocrity

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• The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Cute, Time, Years

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• At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Birthday, Time, Growing Up

  'Poor Richard's Almanac' (1741) June

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• Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

  C. S. Lewis

  Birthday, Talking, Age

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