Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
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.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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.
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons
The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
My inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves.
Only a few things are really important.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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?
Never trust a man who can dance.
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.
We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
Men aren't really complicated. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said, when really it's obvious.
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.
or simply:
