Quotes with thirty

  • The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.
  • Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil and Augustus.
  • 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.
  • If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
  • But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.
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  • Sigmund Freud 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
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Meister Eckhart 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
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Voltaire If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Muhammad Ali A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Henry David Thoreau 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
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Hervey Allen 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.
    Hervey Allen
    American author (1889 - 1949)
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  • Allen Tate At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Baltasar Gracián 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 Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Benjamin Franklin At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Judith Viorst But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.
    Judith Viorst
    American writer and journalist (1931 - )
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  • Georges Clemenceau Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie He's five feet two and he's six feet four. He fights with missiles and with spears. He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen. He's been a soldier for a thousand years.
    The Universal Soldier (1963)
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Lord George Byron I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine - and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so -and now the dross is coming.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Camille Desmoulins I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
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  • Alexander Dubcek 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.
    Alexander Dubcek
    Czechoslovak and Slovak politician (1921 - 1992)
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  • Alistair Maclean I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.
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  • Epictetus If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Camillo di Cavour In a word, the free Church in a free State has been the programme which led me to my first efforts, and which I continue to regard as just and true, reasonable and practical, after the studies of thirty years.
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