Quotes about Fifty

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. Votes: 6

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. Votes: 5

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty. Votes: 4

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent. Votes: 4

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. Votes: 4

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. Votes: 4

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. Votes: 4

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. Votes: 4

It's Fifty, not Fiddy. Votes: 3

Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty. Votes: 3

Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time. Votes: 3

Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well. Votes: 3

Fifty-seven percent of Americans are do-it-yourselfers, craftspeople, and artisans and makers. Votes: 3

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty. Votes: 3

Fifty per cent of the public doesn't know what 'fifty per cent' means. Votes: 3

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing. Votes: 3

Sometimes I worry I'm writing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' for teenagers, but I'm not. Votes: 3

Fifty-dollar oil is just another stop on the road to much higher crude prices. Votes: 3

Fifty percent of life in the NBA is sex. The other 50 percent is money. Votes: 3

Judge said, what you got in your defense son? Fifty-seven channels and nothing on. Votes: 3

After Fifty Shades of Grey, I think my writing is pretty tame, isn't it? Votes: 3

Fifty million dollars is not to be sneezed at. Of course, I never catch cold. Votes: 3

I've never wanted more, until I met you. - Christian Grey, Fifty Shades of Grey Votes: 3

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book. Votes: 3

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic. Votes: 3

Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child. Votes: 3

I think the thriller aspect of this film [Fifty Shades Darker] is what excited me most. Votes: 3

I don't think [Fifty Shades of Grey is] a model for anything. Except maybe in bed. Votes: 3

I don't believe that when you are 25 you are over the hill. Fifty is the new 30. Votes: 3

Fifty percent of people want to sleep with me, and the other 50 percent want to kill me. Votes: 3

Bushido is in being crazy to die. Fifty or more could not kill one such a man. Votes: 3

Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me. Votes: 3

In 'Fifty Shades,' seemingly, Christian has all the power and control - but actually, Anastasia does. Votes: 3

Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins. Votes: 3

Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins. Votes: 3

Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well! Votes: 3

I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey. Votes: 3

Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures. Votes: 3

Fifty seven million children across the world don't want an iPhone, Xbox or chocolates. They want a book and pen. Votes: 3

Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters. Votes: 3

Fifty percent of the game is mental and the other 50 percent is being mental. I've got that part down, no problem. Votes: 3

I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' Votes: 3

Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas. Votes: 3

Fifty per cent of all marriages end in divorce. But look at the bright side: the other 50 per cent end in death. Votes: 3

If anything, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy. Votes: 3

I value my anonymity. I'm happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people reading 'Fifty Shades.' Votes: 3

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade Votes: 3

Can you believe it? Fifty miles from McDonald's. I didn't think there was anywhere in the world that was fifty miles from McDonald's. Votes: 3

Physically stalking as opposed to Instagram stalking, which was kind of great. Leila [from Fifty Shades Darker ] puts my Insta stalking into perspective. Votes: 3

Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour. Votes: 3

Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly. Votes: 3

The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way. Votes: 3

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right. Votes: 3

Directing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to thank for that. Votes: 3

If you can't figure out how to make money on three billion in revenue, when exactly will the profit magic be found? Ten billion? Fifty billion? Votes: 3

[Fifty Shades Darker director] James Foley directed Fear. And that's what I love about this film, because it has a real sexy thriller element about it. Votes: 3

Who here actually thinks I would do Fifty Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life... ? ... Good. Well that's that sorted then. Votes: 3

I kind of liked all the creeping stuff [in Fifty Shades Darker], like when they're sleeping and there's me just standing behind the bed. It was great. Votes: 3

Fifty percent of the women in this country are not having orgasms. If that were true of the male population, it would be declared a national emergency. Votes: 3

Some people will like it [Fifty Shades of Grey] and some won't. I have other movies coming up, this is not what my whole life turns around. Votes: 3

This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name Votes: 3

Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel. Votes: 3

Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel. Votes: 3

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes. Votes: 3

Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes. Votes: 3

Fifty-five years ago, when my dad was a penniless teenager, thank God some well-meaning bureaucrat didn't put his arm around him and say let me take care of you. Votes: 3

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist. Votes: 3

Should a community... be free to enact legislation to say they don't want blacks? Now that's illegal. Fifty years ago it was legal. Is that progress or is that regress? Votes: 3

Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority. Votes: 3

I am sick of war. Every woman of my generation is sick of war. Fifty years of war. Wars rumored, wars beginning, wars fought, wars ending, wars paid for, wars endured. Votes: 3

Yesterday in Egypt, archaeologists discovered the burial site for the 50 children of Ramses II...Fifty children! What I want to know is, who decided to name a condom after this guy? Votes: 3

Fifty years seems like a good anniversary. Even after I'm dead, how much better could I get than this? I mean, it's great, I'm not dead, so I get to see it. Votes: 3

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent. Votes: 3

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty. Votes: 2

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent. Votes: 2

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons Votes: 2

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. Votes: 2

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it. Votes: 2

Ultimately, I think the Equal Protection Clause does guarantee same-sex marriage in all fifty states. Votes: 2

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got. Votes: 2

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years. Votes: 2

I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred. Votes: 2

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. Votes: 2

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am. Votes: 2

At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore. Votes: 2

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy. Votes: 2

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses. Votes: 2

Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways. Votes: 2

I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure. Votes: 2

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years. Votes: 2

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. Votes: 2

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves. Votes: 2

Enter into the promises of God. It is your inheritance. You will do more in one year if you are really filled with the Holy Ghost than you could do in fifty years apart from Him. Votes: 2

As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises. Votes: 2

Homesickness is . . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. . . . You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find. Votes: 2

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? Votes: 2

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace. Votes: 2

I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years. Votes: 2

When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you. Votes: 2

I have not changed; I am still the same girl I was fifty years ago and the same young woman I was in the seventies. I still lust for life, I am still ferociously independent, I still crave justice, and I fall madly in love easily. Votes: 2

No, don't learn at karate schools. They overcharge you for karate uniforms. They make you pay, like, fifty or seventy-five bucks just for a karate uniform, and you don't wear a uniform in everyday life, so why train in one? Most fights take place outdoors, not inside with perfect lighting and mats. Votes: 2

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack. Votes: 2

I'm reading a lot of different books, but I always think I have to switch it up a little bit. It's like food - everything in moderation, same with my books, same with my reading. You read books that are good for you and you learn a lot of stuff, then you read 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' which is like candy. Votes: 2

I did four movies where I gained, like, fifty pounds. I had curly hair, and I had all of this facial hair. I had put on all this weight for these movies, and I did four or five of them back-to-back. Then I cut the weight and I got fit again. I cut my beard and I took away the mustache, and people were like, 'What are you doing?' Votes: 2

I can eat fifty eggs. Votes: 0

Writing is fifty years behind painting. Votes: 0

No man can eat fifty eggs Votes: 0

I'm fifty years ahead of my time, Votes: 0

A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion. Votes: 0

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders Votes: 0

Two is company; three is fifty bucks. Votes: 0

Whipping is fifty percent show and noise. Votes: 0

After fifty most of the bullshit is gone. Votes: 0

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves. Votes: 0

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. Votes: 0

A man of fifty is responsible for his face. Votes: 0

A man of fifty is responsible for his face. Votes: 0

I don't remember what I did fifty years ago. Votes: 0

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. Votes: 0

I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways. Votes: 0

Every woman over fifty should stay in bed until noon. Votes: 0

Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home. Votes: 0

In America, every female under fifty calls herself a girl. Votes: 0

This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty. Votes: 0

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100. Votes: 0

One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors. Votes: 0

There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever. Votes: 0

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. Votes: 0

Love is two minutes and fifty-two seconds of squishy sounds. Votes: 0

But if two and two and fifty make a million,... Votes: 0

I turn my girl on like fifty shades of grey. Votes: 0

I've been married fifty-five years and I've been home three weeks. Votes: 0

Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two. Votes: 0

I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty. Votes: 0

When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex. Votes: 0

Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do. Votes: 0

When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex. Votes: 0

Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit. Votes: 0

If we had fifty Eichmann's, we would have won the war. Votes: 0

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old Votes: 0

The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years. Votes: 0

He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves Votes: 0

Ask God to give you the fifty-year view of your hurt. Votes: 0

What's a man got to do to get in the top fifty? Votes: 0

I'm fifty-six years old - I'm as old as rock 'n roll. Votes: 0

For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to fifty thousand votes Votes: 0

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. Votes: 0

You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousand dollars. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool. Votes: 0

One way of preventing disease is worth fifty ways of curing it. Votes: 0

Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less. Votes: 0

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy. Votes: 0

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night. Votes: 0

Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together. Votes: 0

There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically. Votes: 0

There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five. Votes: 0

Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper. Votes: 0

With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits. Votes: 0

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years. Votes: 0

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. Votes: 0

A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry-that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three Mile Island. Votes: 0

Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt. Votes: 0

Give me fifty DC-3's and the Japanese can have the Burma Road. Votes: 0

My church is fifty percent millennials. There's a connectivity between millennials and I. Votes: 0

I can't stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We'll see what happens. Votes: 0

Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. Votes: 0

I must not mix champage, whiskey, and gin. (Repeated fifty times to fill column.) Votes: 0

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity. Votes: 0

Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents. Votes: 0

Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age Votes: 0

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. Votes: 0

Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more. Votes: 0

There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too. Votes: 0

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet. Votes: 0

You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous. Votes: 0

Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty." -Percy Votes: 0

Twelve thousand seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and three cents in coins, from six centuries. Votes: 0

I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better. Votes: 0

That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected. Votes: 0

Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years. Votes: 0

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more. Votes: 0

I guess if I had fifty million dollars I could spend more time at home... Votes: 0

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie. Votes: 0

When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school. Votes: 0

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror. Votes: 0

Its amazing that Lou Ferrigno can talk with fifty pounds of cracker in his mouth. Votes: 0

A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty. Votes: 0

From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr. Votes: 0

The ideal age for a boy to own a dog is between forty-five and fifty. Votes: 0

If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty. Votes: 0

...it is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see. Votes: 0

You cannot have a best friend for one hundred and fifty four years without trust. Votes: 0

A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes. Votes: 0

Us Asians look like we're twenty until we're fifty. Once we're fifty, we look like Yoda. Votes: 0

The first guy who lays a finger on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks! Votes: 0

All the work I've done in my life will be obsolete by the time I'm fifty. Votes: 0

If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy. Votes: 0

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry. Votes: 0

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread. Votes: 0

A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never! Votes: 0

People are here because they've got baggage. I'm talking curbside-check-in, pay-the-fine-'cause-it's-over-fifty-pounds kind of baggage. Get it? Votes: 0

I'd rather be encouraged by an ant to live than taught to doubt by fifty skeptics. Votes: 0

Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake. Votes: 0

Competitiveness is a personality thing and competitive people don't become pushovers the day they turn fifty. Votes: 0

I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year. Votes: 0

Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn't clicking right. Votes: 0

After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now." Votes: 0

If it's fifty years from now and it still has the same value, that's a movie. Votes: 0

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty. Votes: 0

There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise. Votes: 0

Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive. Votes: 0

They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours. Votes: 0

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand. Votes: 0

I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating. Losers are people who are afraid of losing. Votes: 0

Our big prize tonight is fifty American dollars to the girl with the most exciting mammalian protuberances. Votes: 0

I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female. Votes: 0

Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions. Votes: 0

Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage. Votes: 0

I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales." Votes: 0

During the past fifty years, more mathematics has been created than in all previous ages put together. Votes: 0

No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories. Votes: 0

Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him. Votes: 0

I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty Votes: 0

In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure. Votes: 0

And now, with the aid of this common beer glass, I shall play my fifty guinea solo. Votes: 0

not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo. Votes: 0

Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping. Votes: 0

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body. Votes: 0

I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap. Votes: 0

Being one step ahead makes you a leader Being fifty steps ahead could make you a martyr. Votes: 0

Personally, I choose a rice-based probiotic drink that delivers fifty billion active L. acidophilus and L. casei bacteria." Votes: 0

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it. Votes: 0

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years. Votes: 0

Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago. Votes: 0

Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough? Votes: 0

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. Votes: 0

If you feel a bump on page one hundred, it may be you went off on page fifty. Votes: 0

Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule. Votes: 0

Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up. Votes: 0

People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years. Votes: 0

You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen. Votes: 0

I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate. Votes: 0

I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five. Votes: 0

My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV. Votes: 0

Dubya! What in Tarnation!? Why, I'll tan yer hide fer this!So, what's sex like after fifty, anyway? Votes: 0

I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase. Votes: 0

Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room. Votes: 0

The greatest thing is nobody cares that I'm fifty years old. They only care what I sound like. Votes: 0

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years. Votes: 0

It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes. Votes: 0

I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine. Votes: 0

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable. Votes: 0

What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it. Votes: 0

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work. Votes: 0

Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone. Votes: 0

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in. Votes: 0

I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time. Votes: 0

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved. Votes: 0

Sex ages us. Priests are boyish, spinsters stay black-haired until after fifty. We others, the demon rots us out. Votes: 0

And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her. Votes: 0

I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail. Votes: 0

I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer. Votes: 0

In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy. Votes: 0

You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library. Votes: 0

If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion. Votes: 0

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. Votes: 0

For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds. Votes: 0

Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover. Votes: 0

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. Votes: 0

The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love. Votes: 0

I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people. Votes: 0

I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better. Votes: 0

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier. Votes: 0

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind. Votes: 0

It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way. Votes: 0

Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol. Votes: 0

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. Votes: 0

To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty. Votes: 0

I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks. Votes: 0

You know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy. Votes: 0

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. Votes: 0

Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages. Votes: 0

Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less. Votes: 0

Hollywood is the only place in the world where an amicable divorce means each one gets fifty percent of the publicity. Votes: 0

It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent. Votes: 0

The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent. Votes: 0

Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said. Votes: 0

Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago," has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday. Votes: 0

Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them. Votes: 0

I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty. Votes: 0

When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face. Votes: 0

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good. Votes: 0

I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things. Votes: 0

Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now. Votes: 0

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. Votes: 0

And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life. Votes: 0

I think everybody, no matter what they eat, they should eat at least fifty percent raw food. But I eat some seafood. Votes: 0

Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining. Votes: 0

When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible." Votes: 0

When a puppy takes fifty catnaps in the course of the day, he cannot always be expected to sleep the night through. Votes: 0

Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold. Votes: 0

Sure, he had a wife and fifty-four kids, but he looked like a college freshman. A yummy college freshman majoring in Oh-my-god-I-gotta-get-me-some-of-that. Votes: 0

Those bellhops in Miami are tip-happy. I ordered a deck of playing cards and the bellboy made fifty-two trips to my room. Votes: 0

I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous. Votes: 0

About fifty million years ago...geological evidence indicates CO2 levels were several thousand ppm, much higher than now. And life flourished abundantly. Votes: 0

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction ... Votes: 0

It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late. Votes: 0

Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. ~Garrison Keillor Votes: 0

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you. Votes: 0

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water. Votes: 0

I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that. Votes: 0

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace. Votes: 0

We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than that. Votes: 0

The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago... Votes: 0

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. Votes: 0

Five hundred and fifty generations have lived here. Only the stories we tell each other will create us as a true Canadian people. Votes: 0

I always said marriage should be a fifty-fifty proposition. He should be at least fifty years old, and have at least fifty-million dollars. Votes: 0

It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour. Votes: 0

You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people! Votes: 0

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options. Votes: 0

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it. Votes: 0

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents. Votes: 0

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket. Votes: 0

I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more. Votes: 0

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. Votes: 0

If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once. Votes: 0

Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet. Votes: 0

Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat. Votes: 0

Advice saves you time. If you ask anyone over fifty, which is more important, time or money, they will ALWAYS tell you time. Votes: 0

The difference between a human being ten years of age and one fifty years of age lies altogether in the matter of toys. Votes: 0

When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything. Votes: 0

She has a laugh so hearty it knocks the whipped cream off an order of strawberry shortcake on a table fifty feet away. Votes: 0

I will dine nowhere without your consent although with my present feelings I might be trusted with fifty virgins naked in a dark room. Votes: 0

At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish. Votes: 0

Fearlessness at twenty springs from not knowing challenges lie ahead. Fearlessness at fifty comes from having wrestled with life's challenges and learned from them. Votes: 0

At fifty. I thought I would be done. I thought I'd be finished by now. So I have no idea. I just leave it. Votes: 0

...you must play for the little fellow in the last row of the balcony who only has fifty cents to pay for a ticket. Votes: 0

Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal. Votes: 0

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases. Votes: 0

It's not just the manager who makes the decision, it's the player who makes the decision. They both decide fifty-fifty to make a decision. Votes: 0

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five? Votes: 0

For fifty years now, we have tried big government. Yet too many people remain trapped in despair. Now, we must try a new way. Votes: 0

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty. Votes: 0

Ideally, you want to be in a fifty-fifty power-sharing arrangement with the audience - both of you are there for a mutually enjoyable experience. Votes: 0

The most important advance in the next fifty years will be in the realm of the spiritual - dealing with the spirit of thought. Votes: 0

...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep. Votes: 0

I would willingly give fifty thousand crowns to be able to say that I took Paris without costing the life of one single man. Votes: 0

I am what I am; you can like it or love it. It feels good to blow fifty grand and think nothing of it. Votes: 0

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward. Votes: 0

The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of. Votes: 0

Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes. Votes: 0

There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them. Votes: 0

I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with fifty average people. Votes: 0

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times. Votes: 0

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else Votes: 0

If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution. Votes: 0

Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . . Votes: 0

One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility. Votes: 0

There's many more films being made in America than there are in Australia. You make four hundred and fifty films a year, we make twenty-five. Votes: 0

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime. Votes: 0

The first video I ever made, announcing 'Crash the Super Bowl,' I did about fifty takes and I wanted to die. It was awful. Votes: 0

SUCCESS is not about HERE and NOW. you must pass the TEST OF TIME. the litmus test is FIFTY YEARS from now. SUCCESS is SUCCESSION. Votes: 0

Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years. Votes: 0

I think while zealots fast and frown, And fight for two or seven, That there are fifty roads to town, And rather more to Heaven. Votes: 0

At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will left at all. Votes: 0

I helped you because you're new, and because when there's two people in a cell then there's only a fifty percent chance they'll take you. Votes: 0

people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith. Votes: 0

If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else. Votes: 0

What if there's no town for fifty kilometers?" Said Enoch."The we'll walk for fifty-one kilometers. But I know we weren't blown that far off course. Votes: 0

Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression. Votes: 0

Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers. Votes: 0

The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years! Votes: 0

A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony. Votes: 0

Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking. Votes: 0

People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years. Votes: 0

There's definitely times when you're frustrated for whatever reason, but that happens on fifty million dollar movies when you have a huge trailer, so who cares? Votes: 0

If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level? Votes: 0

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone. Votes: 0

What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased coquetry? Votes: 0

The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs. Votes: 0

Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those of our Southern brethren. Votes: 0

FACE THE NATION is the second oldest program on television. It began in 1954, fifty-eight years ago. I've been here at the table for the last twenty-one. Votes: 0

I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser. Votes: 0

I keep an ongoing list of my fifty favorite books, which I recalibrate whenever I discover a new one that seems to demand a spot there. Votes: 0

A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same. Votes: 0

Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child. Votes: 0

One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure Votes: 0

You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong. Votes: 0

Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere. Votes: 0

If eskimos can come up with fifty words for snow because its a matter of life and death, why do we have just one word for love? Votes: 0

The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the world's emissions. Votes: 0

I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor. Votes: 0

My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt, Theater business, management of men. Votes: 0

But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights. Votes: 0

There is no doubt that every healthy, normal boy...should own a dog at some time in his life, preferably between the ages of forty-five and fifty. Votes: 0

The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees. Votes: 0

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future. Votes: 0

I like to have the screen full of color, twenty colors on the screen at once, fifty colors. There are no dominants despite what people have said. Votes: 0

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism. Votes: 0

Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success. Votes: 0

And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three. Votes: 0

I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun. Votes: 0

After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression. Votes: 0

It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design. Votes: 0

He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate. Votes: 0

Four fifty-four for gas... because we have nobody that calls up OPEC... and say, [mobster voice] 'That. Price. Better. Get. Lower. And it better. Get. Lower. Fast.' Votes: 0

Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher's regular, what normal woman wants affection? Votes: 0

For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another. Votes: 0

What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us? Votes: 0

In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation will continue. Votes: 0

I left with my canvas bag in which a few fundamental things were packed and took off for the Pacific Ocean with the fifty dollars in my pocket. Votes: 0

Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession. Votes: 0

More than fifty-five years ago my father told me, "The Bible does not belong on the shelf but in your hand, under your eye, and in your heart." Votes: 0

My method is basically the same as Masters and Johnson, only they charge thousands of dollars and it's called therapy. I charge fifty dollars and it's called prostitution. Votes: 0

Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week. Votes: 0

I'm one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth. Votes: 0

Never shall I forget those naked, clean-swept little Canadian towns, one just like the other. Before I was twelve years old, I must have lived in fifty of them. Votes: 0

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it. Votes: 0

Her young soul felt cut up like a fifty-year-old, like a squirrel that appeared content, but carried scars from the vestige of time in its black and gray grooves. Votes: 0

Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means. Votes: 0

Last night we had three small zucchini for dinner that were grown within fifty feet of our back door. I estimate they cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $371.49 each. Votes: 0

You may consider yourself an individual, but as a cell biologist, I can tell you that you are in truth a cooperative community of approximately fifty trillion single-celled citizens. Votes: 0

He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled... Votes: 0

We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us. Votes: 0

The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me? Votes: 0

We raise awareness and drop information about access and laws into pop culture spaces through making videos and through live events. That's like fifty percent of what we do. Votes: 0

I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. Votes: 0

The thing about plummetting downhill at fifty miles an hour on a snack platter - if you realize it's a bad idea when you're halfway down, it's too late. Votes: 0

In fact, the bigger the bill, the less likely you are to spend it. If you want to really save money, spend only cash and carry only fifty-dollar bills. Votes: 0

Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books. Votes: 0

Let him be fifty feet away, let him not even speak to you, let him not even see you, he permeated, he prevailed, he imposed himself. He changed everything. Votes: 0

I'm not even fifty yet, but I still feel like Instagram and Spotify - I'm trying to stay with it! It's not easy. The world is going so fast. Votes: 0

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis. Votes: 0

The result of your fifty or sixty years of religious reading in the four words: 'Be just and good,' is that in which all our enquiries must end. Votes: 0

I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the human corporation, like fifty-one per cent, but it's enough. Votes: 0

The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands. The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them. Votes: 0

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger. Votes: 0

I do feel like, now, approaching fifty, I am definitely at a crossroads and having to reevaluate things and look at things. It's time for more change, and that's good. Votes: 0

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay. Votes: 0

For every individual who really is exceptional there are about fifty thousand who just imagine they are - until it's too late, and they find out they aren't after all. Votes: 0

She fell down fifty-five floors. It took 10.6 seconds for her to hit the ground. It took my father forty-eight hours to come back home from his business trip in Sweden. Votes: 0

The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth game 1-0, his manager fined him fifty bucks. Votes: 0

Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation. Votes: 0

It is a very wonderful experience indeed, when, at fifty years old, you suddenly discover that for the first time in your life, you are really free to be yourself. Votes: 0

Since I was forty and definitely slipping, I have won seven full marathons, got second six times, and third four times.... I'm wondering what I can do after I'm fifty. Votes: 0

Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center for Bibles in many languages. Votes: 0

One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times and what you get is a book club. Votes: 0

A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so. Votes: 0

A wise man, once he is past fifty, does not befuddle his senses with strong drink, nor make violent love in the cool spring night, nor dance on his hands. Votes: 0

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods. Votes: 0

He was going to be armed with his wand - which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip of wood - against a fifty-foot-high, scaly, spike-ridden, fire-breathing dragon. Votes: 0

Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions. Votes: 0

In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in. Votes: 0

Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records. Votes: 0

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards. Votes: 0

The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I realized that to me, there had only ever been one boy. Votes: 0

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. Votes: 0

Life is too short to spend forty to fifty hours around people who do nothing but stress you out and make you desire to go stick your head in a blender. Votes: 0

If I were to give myself a pat on the back, it would be for sticking with bookmaking as my primary way of expressing myself over the span of fifty years. Votes: 0

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II Votes: 0

She had five tapes from him now - which meant, if her batteries lasted, she had four hundred and fifty minutes to spend with Park in her head, holding his hand. Votes: 0

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years. Votes: 0

Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago. Votes: 0

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. Votes: 0

We have spent the better part of the last fifty years being inundated by advertising, being told that we will be happier if we get more stuff. But that's been backfiring recently. Votes: 0

Maybe you know why a child can reject a hot dog with mustard served on a soft bun at home, yet eat six of them two hours later at fifty cents each. Votes: 0

I think if I were asked to do as many as fifty takes, I would assume the director had no idea what he wanted, and was just hoping, eventually, to see it. Votes: 0

"It's an old habit of mine, Wal'r," said the Captain, "any time these fifty year. When you see Ned Cuttle bite his nails, Wal'r, then you may know that Ned Cuttle's aground." Votes: 0

On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Votes: 0

Modern love is the enterprise that everyone wants to be a part of, yet there's a fifty percent divorce rate in round one and a sixty-five percent divorce rate in round two. Votes: 0

I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they turn what had been a dream into a public nuisance. Votes: 0

I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say, 'Which of these things do I want to record?' Votes: 0

She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was solemnly listed in the newspaper as that of an artist. Votes: 0

Wedded she some years, and to a manOf fifty, and such husbands are in plenty;And yet, I think, instead of such a ONE'Twere better to have TWO of five and twenty... Votes: 0

Be glad you're fifty - andThat you got there while things were nice,In a world worth looking at twice.So here's wishing you many more years,But not all that many. Cheers! Votes: 0

There are two hundred and fifty-six names given in the Bible for the Lord Jesus Christ, and I suppose this was because He was infinitely beyond all that any one name could express. Votes: 0

The vast majority of the people employed by Wall Street are the secretary who goes in to work on the Long Island Rail Road, who makes fifty, sixty, seventy thousand dollars a year. Votes: 0

Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my pictorial works, before the seventieth year none is worthy. Votes: 0

He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble. Votes: 0

I am dying a thousand cruel and unusual deaths as fifty pairs of eyes take me in, size me up like something that should be hanging over a fireplace in a gentleman's den. Votes: 0

If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the rules - / You'd say the fifty men were fools, / Unfit to be alive. Votes: 0

Tires were so bald on the truck that the air was showin' through, and I had to drive fifty miles an hour all the way out there, because the vibration was so bad. Votes: 0

The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands. Votes: 0

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. Votes: 0

That we arrived at fifty years together is due as much to luck as to love, and a talent for knowing, when we stumble, where to fall, and how to get up again. Votes: 0

Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars. Votes: 0

As we get older we do not get any younger. Seasons return, and today I am fifty-five, And this time last year I was fifty-four, And this time next year I shall be sixty-two. Votes: 0

I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that it was my task to swallow fifty asprin.It was my task:my job for the day.-17 Girl Interrupted Votes: 0

There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace. Votes: 0

You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, it’ll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck. Votes: 0

My buddy Tim Bass he's a-workin' pumpin gas, and he makes two fifty for an hour. He's got rhythm in his hands as he's tappin' on the cans, sings rock and roll in the shower. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't. Votes: 0

Let him grow taller,she asked the gods.Let him know sixteen, and twenty, and fifty. Let him grow as tall as his father, and hold his own son in his arms. Please, please, please. Votes: 0

It's hard to visualize the toys you had fifty years ago - all save bear. He's as clear as if he were sitting on the desk in front of you...of course...he probably is. Votes: 0

The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her. Votes: 0

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working. Votes: 0

Have you ever noticed how many men in the Bible failed in the second half of life? Our enemy is so cunning that he will wait forty or even fifty years to set a trap. Votes: 0

I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it. Votes: 0