30th Birthday Sayings And Quotes
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“Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.”
– George Burns
“In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”
– George Orwell
“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.”
– Golda Meir
“It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.”
– Gore Vidal
“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
– H. L. Mencken
“Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.”
– Harold Coffin
“You know you’re getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.”
– Harrison Ford
“After you’re older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.”
– Helen Gurley Brown
“Age is not important unless you’re a cheese.”
– Helen Hayes
“I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel
“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
– Henry Ford
“In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation’s seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.”
– Herman Cain
“No man is ever old enough to know better.”
– Holbrook Jackson
“Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.”
– Hosea Ballou
“The whole business of marshaling one’s energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.”
– Hume Cronyn
“Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.”
– Ira Gershwin
“We pay when old for the excesses of youth.”
– J. B. Priestley
“Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
– Jack Benny
“I’m happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.”
– James Broughton
“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”
– James Joyce
“Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.”
– James Thurber
“Age is how we determine how valuable you are.”
– Jane Elliot
“Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
“Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.”
– Jim Fiebig
“Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.”
– Joan Collins
“Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.”
– John Burroughs
“I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.”
– Josh Billings
“You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.”
– Judith Viorst
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