“Our feelings probably are not less strong at fifty than they were ten or fifteen years before; but they have changed their objects, and dwell on far different prospects. At five-and-thirty a man thinks of what his own existence is; when the maturity of age has grown into its autumn, he is wrapt up in that of others. The loss of wife or child then becomes more deplorable, as being impossible to repair; for no fresh connection can give us back the companion of our earlier years, nor a "new-sprung race" compensate for that, whose career we hoped to see run.” ThinkingMenGivingYearsChildrenDifferentFeelingsRunningAgeStrongLossRaceExistenceCareersFiveWifeImpossibleObjectsChangedTenConnectionsMaturityThirtyFiftyAutumnCompanionFifteenProspectsFifteen YearsSprung Book:Lodore Source: Lodore
“To every class we have a school assign'd, Rules for all ranks, and food for every mind: Yet one there is, that small regard to rule Or study pays, and still is deem'd a school; That, where a deaf, poor, patient widow sits, And awes some thirty infants as she knits; Infants of humble, busy wives, who pay Some trifling price for freedom through the day. At this good matron's hut the children meet, Who thus becomes the mother of the street.” MindChildrenStillsSchoolMotherPoorPayClassStudyWifeStreetsRegardPatientBusyHumbleThirtyAweInfantDeafWidowsTriflingHuts Book:The Poetical Works of George Crabbe: With a Life of the Author Source: The Poetical Works of George Crabbe: With a Life of the Author
“The best time for marriage will be towards thirty, for as the younger times are unfit, either to choose or to govern a wife and family, so, if thou stay long, thou shalt hardly see the education of thy children, who, being left to strangers, are in effect lost; and better were it to be unborn than ill-bred; for thereby thy posterity shall either perish, or remain a shame to thy name.” IfsChildrenLongNamesLostLeftWifeEffectsShameIllStrangerThirtyPosterityUnbornMatrimonyBest Times Author:Walter Raleigh
“You break into my house, I will shoot you. My wife will shoot you and then spend thirty minutes telling you why she shot you.” IfsHouseBreakWifeMinutesShotsMy WifeThirty Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“Being a teenager is the worst thirty years of your life. But it all changes after that. You get a great car, a great job. You got a wife, kids, you got your health. But then your company is sold out from under you, your stocks tank, your wife's sleeping with the gardener and your teenage daughter is pregnant. And you notice that you have a prostate so hard, you can actually take a hammer to it. But hey, not one zit.” YearsHardKidsJobsSleepCompanyWifeWorstCarDaughterHeyTeenagerThirtyPregnantTeenageHammersTanksGardenerThirty YearsGreat JobSold OutBeing A TeenagerProstateZitsTeenage Daughter Author:Christopher Titus
“There's ten of us, we've been best friends for thirty years. Ten guys. And their wives, and their kids, are all family now. I'm not big on keeping up on the phone, none of us are. Some guys I won't talk to for two months and then you pick up the phone and hear, "So, anyway." There's no guilt or where have you been? or what's been going on? or why haven't we talked? There's an ease to it.” YearsTwoBigsKidsGuyWifeHavensMonthsTenPicksGuiltPhonesEaseThirtyThirty YearsTwo Months Author:George Clooney