Fifty Quotes
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.
The most important advance in the next fifty years will be in the realm of the spiritual - dealing with the spirit of thought.
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. . .
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.
Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol.
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.
From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.
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.
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.
...you must play for the little fellow in the last row of the balcony who only has fifty cents to pay for a ticket.
Judge said, what you got in your defense son? Fifty-seven channels and nothing on.
I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been for at least a hundred and fifty years.
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.
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.
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.
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.
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.
It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.
Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns in the United States, at least fifty million other Americans must agree with me.
Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
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.
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.
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.
I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating. Losers are people who are afraid of losing.
To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.
I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.
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.
