30th Birthday Quotes

• Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Birthday, Congratulations, Age

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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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• 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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  The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

  Lucille Ball

  Happy Birthday, Beauty, Funny Birthday

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• Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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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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• To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Inspirational, Eye, Two

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

  Aldous Huxley

  Birthday, Children, Mean

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• A woman over 30 will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, "What are you thinking?". She doesn't care what you think.

  Andy Rooney

  Night, Thinking, Wakes You

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• There is still no cure for the common birthday.

  John Glenn

  Happy Birthday, Friends, Funny Birthday

  "Ohio's Sen. Glenn Won't Run Again In 1998" by Candy Crowley, www.cnn.com.

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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 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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• Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Time, Loneliness, Men

  The Great Gatsby ch. 7 (1925)

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• The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Tombstone, People, Great Men

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• Miranda in Miranda's sight is old, gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty.

  Ogden Nash

  Morning, Dirty, Night

  Ogden Nash (1936). “The bad parents' garden of verse”

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• I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

  Christine Lahti

  Birthday, Fighting, Careers

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• At my 30th birthday party, one of my best friends gave a toast and said I'd been waiting for that day since I was 13. Everyone laughed, but he was right! Life continues to get more fun, more surprising, more delightful.

  Siobhan-Marie O'Connor

  Fun, Party, Waiting

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• A woman has the age she deserves.

  Coco Chanel

  Age, Coquetry, Deserve

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• I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run.

  Michael Weatherly

  Birthday, Running, Women

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• Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

  Andre Maurois

  Birthday, Time, Hunting

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• No man is ever old enough to know better.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Men, Age, Aging

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• A man growing old becomes a child again.

  Sophocles

  Children, Men, Age

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• Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

  Jane Elliott

  Age, Valuable, Determine

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• 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

  Birthday, Heart, Uprising

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• I played rugby for years, and I had a rugby jacket that I lost when I was 14. Somehow, my brother found it in storage 15 years later, and he gave it back to me for my 30th birthday. That was amazing and probably one of the best gifts I've ever received.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Brother, Years, Rugby

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