Thirty Quotes

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, Same, Wasted

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

Great, Woman, Soul

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

Strange, Fact, Talking

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

Age, Judgment, Wit

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

Dreams, Time, Live

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

Days, Actually, September

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
Meister Eckhart

Yourself, Heart, Human

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
Bette Midler

Mind, After, Body

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
William James

Age, Character, Again

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Life, Give, Next

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
Baltasar Gracian

Nothing, Dog, Lion

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
Georges Clemenceau

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
F. Scott Fitzgerald

After, Next, Ourselves

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

Family, Mother, Nothing

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

Free, Equal, Press

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
Mason Cooley

Great, Wisdom, Deal

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Women, American, Relief

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
Niels Bohr

Great, Truth, Technology

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

Age, Against, Youth

Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt.
Bam Margera

Hurt, Down, Try

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
Gertrude Stein

End, Between, Beginning

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
David Ogilvy

Life, Age, Long

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!
Kevin Spacey

Heart, Rebel, Brains

I love spaghetti. And I like to cook spaghetti. And I used to eat it every day. I weighed thirty pounds more than I do now. You can't - you can't do that.
Christopher Walken

Love, Used, Eat

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
Robert M. Pirsig

Food, Give, Thousand

The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care.
Chris Brown

Care, Words, Moment

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.
Annie Lennox

Life, Age, Time

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.
Rita Mae Brown

Writing, Interest, Ability

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
Norman Cousins

Human, Fact, Force

'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.
Ron Fournier

Best, Dark, Picture

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