Thirty Years Old Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• People ask me, How would you do as a contestant on the show? And I tell them I would do fairly well among senior citizens, but against a good thirty-year-old I would have trouble because I cannot recall information as quickly as I used to. You used to say something and I would go, boom, right away, very sharp. Now it's like, Oh, yes, but wait a minute, uh, uh.

  Alex Trebek

  Senior, Years, People

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• Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.

  John Sayles

  Years, Acting, Actors

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• Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Doctors

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• A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Fall, Men, Years

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• There is a strange fact about the human mind, a fact that differentiates the mind sharply from the body. The body is limited in ways that the mind is not. One sign of this is that the body does not continue indefinitely to grow in strength and develop in skill and grace. By the time most people are thirty years old, their bodies are as good as they will ever be; in fact, many persons' bodies have begun to deteriorate by that time. But there is no limit to the amount of growth and development that the mind can sustain. The mind does not stop growing at any particular age.

  Mortimer Adler

  Years, Skills, People

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• Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Sports, Lying, Passion

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• When I was thirty years old and a half, God sent me a bodily sickness, in which I lay three days and three nights; and on the fourth night I took all my rites of Holy Church, and weened not to have lived till day.

  Julian of Norwich

  Night, Years, Church

  Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.

  Christian Lacroix

  Years, Looks, Realizing

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• I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Children, Years, May

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

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• Hey, single malt scotch, youre thirty years old. When are you going to settle down and get married to my stomach?

  Stephen Colbert

  Scotch, Years, Hey

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• I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

  Dana Carvey

  Years, Age, Levels

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• So. You refuse my money, you serve me thirty-year-old Highland Park scotch, and we've been in the same room for approximately five minutes, yet none of my bones are broken. This leads me to believe that your back is against the wall and you desperately need me for something. I'm dying to know what that is.

  Ilona Andrews

  Wall, Believe, Scotch

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.36, Penguin

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• Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.

  Neal Stephenson

  Sports, Men, Years

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.56, Spectra

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• Bob Dylan will be thirty years old this month..." "That's the most depressing thing I've ever heard.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Depressing, Years, Bob

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• I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mother, Italian, Years

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “The Portable Jack Kerouac”, Viking Adult

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• Barry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey.

  Nick Hornby

  Dad, Years, Monkeys

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.314, Penguin

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• I have never been able to see how a thirty-year old moron can vote more wisely than a fifteen-year old genius.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Years, Genius, Fifteen

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.232, Penguin

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