1.
Most men are essentially dead by thirty.
Romain Rolland
The majority of mankind reach the zenith of their vigor before reaching middle age.
2.
If at the age of thirty you don't know what God has called you to do; you may never know.
Chris Oyakhilome
3.
When you're thirty you're old enough to know better,but still young enough to go ahead and do it.
Brigitte Bardot
4.
I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one has told me about.
Tibor Fischer
5.
You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.
John Lanchester
6.
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!
Ozzy Osbourne
7.
Women over thirty are at their best, but men over thirty are too old to recognize it
Jean-Paul Belmondo
8.
Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.
Calvin Trillin
10.
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,.
Eva Longoria
11.
...for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.
Francine Rivers
12.
Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
Miguel de Cervantes
13.
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.
Randolph Bourne
14.
Will you stop counting!' snarled Zaphod. 'Yes,' said Ford Prefect, 'in three minutes and thirty-five seconds.
Douglas Adams
15.
In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
Ben Hecht
17.
Thirty seconds is the exact amount of time Americans can tolerate something they don't understand.
Stephen Colbert
18.
I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski
19.
I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.
Paul Haggis
20.
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
Mason Cooley
21.
The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.
Hanif Kureishi
22.
I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.
Ridley Scott
23.
Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
Zelda Fitzgerald
24.
Unfortunately, at present, practically no one under thirty goes to workshops. It's a system of education entirely for the middle aged.
Rupert Sheldrake
25.
I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.
Alistair Maclean
26.
I love spaghetti. And I like to cook spaghetti. And I used to eat it every day. I weighed thirty pounds more than I do now. You can't - you can't do that.
Christopher Walken
27.
Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them,
is dangerous to the government.
Napoleon Bonaparte
28.
I came to Christ when I was thirty-eight. That transformed my life.
Jennifer O'Neill
29.
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.
Aristotle
30.
Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat.
Gelett Burgess
31.
When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.
H. P. Lovecraft
32.
They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.
Markus Zusak
33.
I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.
Mickey Rooney
34.
I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.
Julia Child
35.
Chelsea Manning got thirty-five years in prison, while I'm still free.
Edward Snowden
36.
Thirty percent of the Nation's energy comes off the gulf coast.
Bobby Jindal
38.
And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn't a cool thing to be.
Vincent Kartheiser
39.
As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible.
Mark Steel
40.
I am going to be pretty kick a$$ by the time I'm thirty, and I can't wait!!
Rose McGowan
41.
I'm much more introspective than I was, say, thirty years ago.
Jimmy Carter
42.
It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.
Justin Cronin
43.
I wrote a thirty-second song that I couldn't finish for a year.
John Flansburgh
44.
Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the silt from your throat. I am none the wiser.
Sylvia Plath
45.
Oh why was I born for this time? Before one is thirty to know more dead than living people.
Cynthia Asquith
47.
I don't love the years going by. I'd just as soon stay forty-five. But it's OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five.
Stevie Nicks
48.
What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.
John Updike
49.
I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
50.
And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die.
Sylvia Plath