The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. Votes: 6
Arthur SchopenhauerA man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. Votes: 6
Muhammad AliRugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city. Votes: 4
Oscar WildeAt twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. Votes: 4
Benjamin FranklinThe boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed. Votes: 4
Henry David ThoreauLife is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen. Votes: 4
Luke RhinehartThe big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations. Votes: 3
Michael Tilson ThomasThirty-five percent of all my dates were at the movies from 2013 to 2014. Votes: 3
Theophilus LondonThirty-seven percent of gamblers dip into their savings to fulfill their habit Votes: 3
John Warren KindtThirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education. Votes: 3
Kathryn SchulzThirty-six satisfactory exposures on a roll means a photographer is not trying anything new Votes: 3
Freeman Patterson'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture. Votes: 3
Michael MooreThe misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War. Votes: 3
Jurgen HabermasThe misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War Votes: 3
Jurgen HabermasThirty-five years ago, being a cook was the same as being a used-car salesman. Votes: 3
Wolfgang PuckIt happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born. Votes: 3
Justin CroninThirty seconds is the exact amount of time Americans can tolerate something they don't understand. Votes: 3
Stephen ColbertPerhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in. Votes: 3
Calvin TrillinThirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now. Votes: 3
Ted ShackelfordWhat'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years? Votes: 2
F. Scott FitzgeraldInside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened? Votes: 0
Ann LandersAnything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five. Votes: 0
Zelda FitzgeraldI found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce. Votes: 0
Charles Maurice de TalleyrandAnything invented after youâre thirty-five is against the natural order of things Votes: 0
Douglas AdamsLenin had taken part in Jewish student meetings in Switzerland thirty-five years before. Votes: 0
Chaim WeizmannI spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge... Votes: 0
Abdullah ibn MubarakHaving been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin. Votes: 0
Pete EarleyTalking with three people deeply is better than talking with thirty people superficially. Votes: 0
Todd StockerI have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family. Votes: 0
Nastassja KinskiGuess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas. Votes: 0
Mark MillarWithin thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Votes: 0
Vernor VingePeople under thirty haven't yet stopped believing that something wonderful can suddenly happen. Votes: 0
Peter HøegI studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years. Votes: 0
Abdullah ibn MubarakVote Smart has sent out thirty thousand questionnaires to every candidate running for office. Votes: 0
Betty HillI would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special. Votes: 0
Robert HarlingI was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade. Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldYou have not had thirty years' experience . . . You have had one year's experience 30 times. Votes: 0
J. L. CarrOn the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments. Votes: 0
Arnold GingrichBachelors begin at thirty-six. Up till this age they are regarded as single men. Votes: 0
Jilly CooperGod blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull. Votes: 0
Ernie HarwellSatan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume. Votes: 0
Rudyard KiplingI frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights. Votes: 0
Jane AustenAfter thirty-five a man begins to have thoughts about women; before that he has feelings. Votes: 0
Austin O'MalleyNo normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenIf ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty. Votes: 0
Finley Peter DunneWe cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress. Votes: 0
Barbra StreisandEvery single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children. Votes: 0
Shelby SteeleIt was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children Votes: 0
George OrwellAt thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan. Votes: 0
Edward YoungNot only did Judas sell Jesus for thirty pieces of silver; he also sold himself. Votes: 0
George H MorrisonA man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never! Votes: 0
William OslerNot childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal. Votes: 0
Charles LambThe faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldNever let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do! Votes: 0
Norma ShearerI am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists. Votes: 0
Camille DesmoulinsI was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial. Votes: 0
Ridley ScottMetaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. Votes: 0
Robert M. PirsigFortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning. . Votes: 0
Patricia BriggsI wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished. Votes: 0
Alistair MacLeanIf you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you. Votes: 0
Asne SeierstadI didn't start cooking until I was thirty-two. Until then, I just ate. - Julia Child Votes: 0
Kathleen FlinnI'm thirty," said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldI don't care how wonderful heaven is, I won't be content waiting thirty years for you. Votes: 0
Jason F. WrightTime flies when you're having fun, and I've been having fun for the last thirty years. Votes: 0
Pete ConradDamn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver. Votes: 0
Aneurin BevanMany a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty. Votes: 0
Catherine Drinker BowenEvery new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified. Votes: 0
Lucy StoneI am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago. Votes: 0
John BrightWe almost made it to thirty seconds without an insult. I think we set a new record. Votes: 0
Sherrilyn KenyonAfter thirty years of being 'the camel lady,' believe me: One becomes inured to the spotlight. Votes: 0
Robyn DavidsonBob Dylan will be thirty years old this month..." "That's the most depressing thing I've ever heard. Votes: 0
Charles M. SchulzI will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind. Votes: 0
Andrew Dickson White[When told that her grandchild had her nose:] I didn't get this nose until I was thirty-four. Votes: 0
Joan RiversYou can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life. Votes: 0
Coco ChanelI have walked the earth for thirty years and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir. Votes: 0
Vincent Van GoghI guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way. Votes: 0
Kristin HannahWomen over thirty are at their best, but men over thirty are too old to recognize it Votes: 0
Jean-Paul BelmondoIf I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400. Votes: 0
Ted WilliamsI wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls. Votes: 0
Daphne du MaurierSo when Putin goes out to buy a Coke, thirty seconds later it is known in Washington DC. Votes: 0
Julian AssangeWant coffee?" I asked, as I headed that way. "It's three thirty in the morning." "Okay. Want coffee? Votes: 0
Darynda JonesThere is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty. Votes: 0
Nathaniel Parker WillisThere ain't many troubles that a man caint fix With seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six. Votes: 0
Jeff CooperIt has taken me thirty three years and a bang on the head to get my values right. Votes: 0
Stirling MossI have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life. Votes: 0
Philip LarkinThe epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty. Votes: 0
Nicholas Murray ButlerNo matter how often I tell people I'm thirty-nine some of them refuse to believe I'm that old. Votes: 0
Jack BennyEvery man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteI have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address. Votes: 0
Sylvia PlathI went a little nuts in my twenties, but I just turned thirty and I feel, like, older now. Votes: 0
Sunny MabreyOh why was I born for this time? Before one is thirty to know more dead than living people. Votes: 0
Cynthia AsquithAnd I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die. Votes: 0
Sylvia PlathI mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1. Votes: 0
Neil InnesI've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it. Votes: 0
Henry FondaWar is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand. Votes: 0
Peter KropotkinWild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high. Votes: 0
Abby SunderlandThe sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light. Votes: 0
John GreenWhen you're thirty you're old enough to know better,but still young enough to go ahead and do it. Votes: 0
Brigitte BardotI was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don't know why I couldn't. Votes: 0
Paul HaggisAmerica has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty. Votes: 0
Sophie SwetchineWhat you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more. Votes: 0
John UpdikeWhen I was thirty and perhaps forty, I did not want a wife. It was too much fun being single. Votes: 0
Jacob RuppertIf at the age of thirty you don't know what God has called you to do; you may never know. Votes: 0
Chris OyakhilomeIn my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time. Votes: 2 Chaka Khan
Lyme disease is the most commonly reported tick-borne illness in the United States, and the incidence is growing rapidly. In 2009, the C.D.C. reported thirty-eight thousand cases, three times more than in 1991. Most researchers agree that the true number of infections is five to ten times higher. Votes: 1 Michael Specter
The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War. Votes: 1 Jurgen Habermas
In my twenties I would be skeptical of a bad haircut, but once you turn thirty it's more about whether he a nice person and does he open the door for me. Once you turn thirty-five, it's more about would he make a good father. And even if you're just liking somebody and digging on someone, I think you can't help but think in those terms. Votes: 2 Rashida Jones