Quotes on 30th Birthday

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.

All diseases run into one, old age.

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

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

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

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.