Quotes of Thirty - somelinesforyou

“ Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow. ”

- Ellen DeGeneres

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

- Dana Carvey

“ 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

“ Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games. ”

- Dizzy Dean

“ For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn — much. ”

- W. C. Sellar

“ 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

“ The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. ”

- Jean Kerr

“ I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one. ”

- Elizabeth Janeway

“ Most men who are not married by the age of thirty-five are either homosexual or really smart. ”

- Becky Rodenbeck

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

- H. L. Mencken

“ Why does a small tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and s substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? ”

- Peg Bracken

“ No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ After thirty nine years this is all I've done. ”

- Dylan Thomas

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

- Muhammad Ali

“ For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race. ”

- Harlan Ellison

“ I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show. ”

- Ronald Reagan

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

- H.L. Mencken

“ No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty. ”

- James A. Froude

“ If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other's throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace. ”

- Voltaire

“ I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either. ”

- Dave Barry

“ Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life. ”

- Duchess Loelia

“ At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities… And, above all, accept these things. ”

- Albert Camus

“ 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

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

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Everything I know I learned after I was thirty. ”

- Georges Clemenceau

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

- Alexis De Tocqueville

“ He who does not have common sense at age thirty will never have it. ”

- Unknown

“ I am thirty-three — the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists. ”

- Camille Desmoulins

“ I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. ”

- Henry David Thoreau
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