Thirty Quotes - page 3

I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it. (H. L. Mencken)
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
Rush Limbaugh, who has made a career preaching that anybody who does drugs has got to go right to jail -- do not pass go, no questions asked, right to jail -- gets caught doing thirty oxycontin a day. Thirty oxycontin?! Do you have any idea how high that is?! I don't, and I've been pretty high! View quote
Bill Maher
At thirty man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves then dies the same. View quote
Edward Young
I could buy myself paper, a pen, a pencil and a brush and could create pictures whenever and wherever I wanted. ... That evening, in the spring of 1947, on the embankment of the Seine in Paris, at the age of thirty, I saw that it was possible to live and work in the world, and that I could participate in the exchange of ideas that was taking place all around, bound to no country. View quote
Peter Weiss
Long ago I abandoned my masterpiece a roll of paper thirty yards long which I filled completely with minute handwriting in my dungeon years ago It vanished when the Bastille fell it vanished as everything written everything thought and planned will disappear. View quote
Peter Weiss
Sow the seeds of life - humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is. View quote
Russell Baker
I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about thirty feet on the wall and the movements keep returning to me and the eye seems to be responding to something living, then it is finished. View quote
William Baziotes
Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
Time is timelessness for you; Calendars for the human; What's a year, or thirty, to Loveliness made woman? (Ogden Nash)
Oh, Night will not see thirty again, Yet soft her wing, Miranda; Pick up your glass and tell me, then-- How old is Spring, Miranda? View quote
Ogden Nash
Miranda in Miranda's sight Is old and gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty. View quote
Ogden Nash
My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time. View quote
Dean Kamen
A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. View quote
Mark Twain
Trayvon Martin could have been me thirty five years ago. View quote
Barack Obama
The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War. View quote
Jürgen Habermas
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. View quote
Meister Eckhart
It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him. View quote
Voltaire
If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness. View quote
Voltaire
The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile. (John Maynard Keynes)
Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshness of a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever. View quote
Markus Zusak
Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
We almost made it to thirty seconds without an insult. I think we set a new record. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon