Quotes of Fifty - somelinesforyou

“ At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't. ”

- Clarence Darrow

“ 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. ”

- Baltasar Gracian

“ I'll never make the mistake of turning seventy again. ”

- Casey Stengel

“ Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. ”

- Thomas Moore

“ Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money. ”

- Dennis Rodman

“ Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents. ”

- Marilyn Monroe

“ 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. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ 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

“ 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. ”

- Bill Klem

“ One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything. ”

- Jeffery F. Chamberlain

“ If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. ”

- Anatole France

“ If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it. ”

- Henry Ford

“ In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity. ”

- Lauren Bacall

“ For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex. ”

- Gore Vidal

“ 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. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ God is dead, but fifty thousand social workers have risen to take his place. ”

- J.D. McCoughey

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

- Johnny Carson

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

- John Lydon Rotten

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

- Marilyn Monroe

“ Sigmund Freud once said, "What do women want?" The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that. ”

- Bill Cosby

“ I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty percent illusion. ”

- Tennessee Williams

“ The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ 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. ”

- Bill Vaughn

“ 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. ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ 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. ”

- Bill Vaughan

“ 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. ”

- Marie Dressler

“ Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body. ”

- Raquel Welch

“ Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. ”

- Edgar Degas

“ Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways — and all are right! At least all will do. ”

- Heywood Broun
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