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“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.”

Men Long Left Behinds Boys Youth Sweet Thirty Old Man Left Behind Scarce Sixteen Glee

Author:Arthur Hugh Clough

“The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and wind-broken horses, painted first in pastel colors, then in dull grays and browns, but perplexing and intolerably dizzy the thing is, as never were the merry-go-rounds of childhood or adolescence; as never, surely, were the certain-coursed, dynamic roller-coasters of youth. For most men and women these thirty years are taken up with a gradual withdrawal from life.”

Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.”

Men Humans Made Human Nature Youth Periods Judgment Thirty Complexity Harsh Compounds

Book:The Miller of Old Church

Source: The Miller of Old Church

“By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.”

Years Believe Wells Age I Believe Practice Five Middle Youth Twenties Following Well Being Thirty Five Years Middle Ages Twenty Five Vitamins Nutrients

Book:How to Live Longer and Feel Better

Source: How to Live Longer and Feel Better

“Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.”

Character Age Faces Young Youth Surface Thirty Lakes Serenity Mobile Discreet

Book:A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac

Source: A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac

“The youth rebellion [1968] is a worldwide phenomenon that has not been seen before in history. I do not believe they will calm down ad be ad execs at thirty as the Establishment would like us to believe.”

Believe Youth Calm Thirty Rebellion Phenomenon Ads Establishment Calm Down

Author:William S. Burroughs

“Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.”

Years Joy Lying Passion Sports Pleasure Youth Thirty Ashes Darling Careless Thirty Years Pompeii Thirty Years Old

Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

“I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of it. What have I done these last thirty years? Precious little.”

Years Littles Made Done Use Dream Lasts Next Gone Youth Thirty Thirty Years

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.”

Men Might Fall Five Youth Fool Limits Falling In Love Extremes Thirty

Book:The Moon and Sixpence

Source: The Moon and Sixpence

“It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are as significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less a moth eaten man who grinds an organ - and once he was an organ-grinder! The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory.”

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?”