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"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
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"Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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"I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level." »Dana Carvey
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"From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents.
From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks.
From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality.
From fifty-five on, she needs good cash." »Sophie Tucker
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"Most men who are not married by the age of thirty-five are either homosexual or really smart." »Becky Rodenbeck
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"For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much." »W. C. Sellar
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"I have a problem about being nearly sixty I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one." »Elizabeth Janeway
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"A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child." »H.L. Mencken
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"In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel." »Ben Hecht
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"No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate." »H. L. Mencken
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"The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life." »Muhammad Ali
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"Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen." »Luke Rhinehart
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"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible." »Jean Kerr
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"The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want" »Sigmund Freud
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"Why does a small tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and s substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?" »Peg Bracken
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"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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"I have lived some thirty 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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"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 Barbra Streisand Were trying to do something about it." »Judith Viorst
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"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
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"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
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"I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world." »Russell Baker
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"If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double." »Robert H Bork
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"My time has been passed viciously and agreeably at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that 'Carpe Diem' is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow" »George Gordon Byron
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"The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties." »Schopenhauer
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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
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"To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one." »Schopenhauer
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"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock." »Orson Welles
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"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." »Orson Welles
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"Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose sides and angle were all equal. He discovered these things for himself and then began to seek the relationship which existed between them. He did not know any mathematical terms and so he made up his own. Using these names he made axioms and finally developed perfect demonstrations, until he had come to the thirty-second proposition of Euclid." »C. M. Cox
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"Merrill Morgan, this crop stuff is just about a bunch of nerds who never had a girlfriend their whole lives. They're like thirty now. They make up secret codes and analyze Greek mythology and make secret societies where other guys who never had girlfriends can join in. They do stupid crap like this to feel special. It's a scam. Nerds were doin' it twenty five years ago and new nerds are doing it again." »Signs
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