I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five…

I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at…

— P. G. Wodehouse

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

— Maurice Chevalier

So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in…

— Gunther Schuller

Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to keep informed…

— Norman Cousins

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those,…

— Doris Lessing

At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.

— Helen Rowland

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody. I have…

— Michel Legrand

My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those…

— Tyler Perry

Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, capitalist,…

— Slavoj Žižek

The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it…

— Patrick Macnee

Kit, you're forty. You look thirty. You act...well, never mind. You're carrying on like you think you're seventy

— Josh Lanyon

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for…

— Thomas Malthus

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on…

— Jodi Picoult

It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be…

— Rose Macaulay