30th Birthday Sayings And Quotes

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“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.”
– Confucius

“Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.”
– Don Marquis

“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.”
– Don Marquis

“Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.”
– Doris Day

“The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.”
– Doris Day

“The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.”
– Doris Lessing

“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”
– Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.”
– Doug Larson

“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”
– Douglas MacArthur

“Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.”
– Dwight L. Moody

“Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“And I’m afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.”
– Elton John

“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”
– Emily Dickinson

“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”
– Erich Fromm

“Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.”
– Euripides

“There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.”
– Fay Weldon

“As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.”
– Frances Conroy

“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.”
– Francis Bacon

“Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”
– Francis Bacon

“It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.”
– Frank A. Clark

“Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright

“Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.”
– Friedrich Durrenmatt

“When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it’s bottled.”
– Gene Fowler

“Every man over forty is a scoundrel.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.”
– George Burns

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