30th Birthday Sayings And Quotes

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“No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.”
– Katharine Graham

“If you haven’t turned rebel by twenty you’ve got no heart; if you haven’t turned establishment by thirty you’ve got no brains!”
– Kevin Spacey

“Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.”
– Kitty O’Neill Collins

“In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.”
– Knut Hamsun

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
– Kurt Vonnegut

“I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.”
– Lauren Bacall

“The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.”
– Leon Edel

“I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You’re young enough to get away with things, but you’re old enough, too.”
– Liv Tyler

“The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.”
– Logan P. Smith

“The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.”
– Lord Chesterfield

“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.”
– Louis Kronenberger

“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”
– Louisa May Alcott

“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”
– Lucille Ball

“Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.”
– Luis Bunuel

“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey‘s end.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.”
– Margaret Mead

“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”
– Margaret Mead

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
– Mark Twain

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”
– Mark Twain

“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”
– Mark Twain

“As men get older, the toys get more expensive.”
– Marvin Davis

“The wisdom of age: don’t stop walking.”
– Mason Cooley

“Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.”
– Mason Cooley

“Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.”
– Mason Cooley

“Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.”
– Mason Cooley

“A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.”
– Maurice Chevalier

“The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.”
– Max Lerner

“And in my own life, in my own small way, I’ve tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That’s why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us – no matter what our age or background or walk of life – each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.”
– Michelle Obama

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