Thirty Quotes

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?

Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years - write me a note!

Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

Women over thirty are at their best, but men over thirty are too old to recognize it

George Burns has been on my show twenty or thirty times, or maybe more. How can you turn down a guy that age?

I still feel thirty, except when I try to run.

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again.

For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.

There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.

At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.

Who knows what we’ll need to learn thirty years from now? We do know that we will need to be good at searching for information, collating it, and figuring out whether it is right or wrong.

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.

And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.

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.

Lenin had taken part in Jewish student meetings in Switzerland thirty-five years before.

Don't trust anyone over thirty

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

The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.

In a real battle, atemi is seventy percent, technique is thirty percent.

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

I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don’t think it’s something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that,.

I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.

There ain't many troubles that a man caint fix With seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six.

Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking Program achieved for me a thing that I thought was not possible - to give up a thirty year smoking habit literally overnight. It was nothing short of a miracle.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

One night in Pittsburgh, thirty-thousand fans gave me a standing ovation when I caught a hot dog wrapper on the fly.

I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.

My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.

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

...for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.

Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.

You cannot stop me; I spend thirty thousand men a month.

Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.

Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.

If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.

Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.

I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.

Will you stop counting!' snarled Zaphod. 'Yes,' said Ford Prefect, 'in three minutes and thirty-five seconds.

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.

It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.