Fifty Quotes

• 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

  Happiness, Baby, Children

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• 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.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Birthday, Fire

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.15, Penguin

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• Only a few things are really important.

  Marie Dressler

  Funny, Life, Happiness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves.

  John Green

  Moving, Shade, Goddess

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

  Marie Dressler

  Turning 50, Funny Old Age Birthday

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Muhammad Ali

  Life, Motivational, Happy Birthday

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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

  Josh Billings

  Stay Strong, Home, Thinking

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

  Coco Chanel

  Funny, Birthday, Beauty

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• I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Funny, Age, Aging

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• 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.

  George Eliot

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Time

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• Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

  Victor Hugo

  Birthday, Health, Medicine

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• The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Birthday, Two Sides, Heyday

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• 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

  Birthday, Maturity, Turning 50

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons

  Marie Dressler

  Lessons, Hardest

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  A Thousand and One Epigrams (1911)

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• 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.

  William Faulkner

  Funny, Humorous, Drinking

  In James M. Webb and A. Wigfall Green William Faulkner of Oxford (1965) p. 110

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

  Alexander Hamilton

  Age, Body, Aging

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• I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• 50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point?

  Jim Carrey

  Birthday, Love Is, Years

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• 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.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Reading, Age

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• 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.

  Bob Geldof

  Birthday, Thinking, Years

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• 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.

  John Cheever

  Country, Time, Long

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• We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Greatest Love, Influence, Hundred

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Dollars, Guests, Lectures

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• 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

  Men, Years, Best Year

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