Fifty Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.

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

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

Intelligence is the flower of discrimination. There are many examples of the flower blooming but not bearing fruit. Bushido is in being crazy to die. Fifty or more could not kill one such a man.

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

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?

But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.

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

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

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.

If you are not financially independent by the time you are forty or fifty, it doesn't mean that you are living in the wrong country or at the wrong time. It simply means that you have the wrong plan.

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

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

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."

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

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

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

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

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

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

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

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.

Kids did really well in their A levels, how do we respond? 'A Levels are getting easier, in my day you had to do fifty questions in a minute, if you got one wrong, they killed your dad!

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

Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.

I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most are the Americans. There are very few contemporary English poets that I admire.

Don't get your panties in such a twist... and give me back mine.

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.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.