“A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.”

“He had learned self-control in a hard school. He had been married for thirty years.”

“What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?” cried Daisy, “and the day after that, and the next thirty years?”

“The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves.”

“Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years - write me a note!”

“It took Ireland thirty years to become an overnight success.”

“All that I know I learned after I was thirty.”

“Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.”

“She's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.”

“I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.”