Fifty Quotes

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

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

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.

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

I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

I had dreamed my life for nearly fifty years (I am about to be fifty-nine). But, you see, there are two tones in Les Mats: the echo of this condemnation and a mitigation of that severity.

My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.

At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].

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.

I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.

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

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.

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

We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

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

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.

I was raised on Josh White, the Weavers and Pete Seeger. The music was everywhere. You'd go to a party at somebody's apartment and there would be fifty people there, singing well into the night.

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

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I remember the first sale I made was a hundred and fifty dollars for a radio script, and, as poor as I was, I didn't cash the check for three months. I kept showing it to people.

Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.

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

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

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.

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion.

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

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.