Fifty Quotes · Page 3

Give me fifty DC-3's and the Japanese can have the Burma Road.

— Chiang Kai-shek

Every woman over fifty should stay in bed until noon.

— Mamie Eisenhower

He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves

— Plutarch

A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.

— Norbert Wiener

Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.

— Eric Sevareid

I don't think [Fifty Shades of Grey is] a model for anything. Except maybe in bed.

— E. L. James

When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.

— Donald Ray Pollock

Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.

— Roger Daltrey

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

— Gordon Bell

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

— Josh Billings

Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.

— Robert Ballard

Never shall I forget those naked, clean-swept little Canadian towns, one just like the other. Before I was twelve years old, I…

— Marie Dressler

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in…

— Al McGuire

Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.

— David Mermin

I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.

— Miles Davis

A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he…

— Raymond Carver

We deal five minutes with a person and their conversion and then we spend the next fifty years trying to disciple a…

— Paul Washer

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next…

— Milton Friedman

Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we…

— John Edward Redmond

A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a…

— Charles E. Wilson

The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97…

— Herman Cain

I'm such a lucky guy. I've been able to make my own decisions for my own life for the last fifty years...or…

— Ted Nugent

I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy…

— Raymond Chandler

I guess what surprised me the most was the discrepancy in casualties: Iraq, one hundred fifty thousand casualties, USA: seventy-nine! Let's go…

— Bill Hicks

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading…

— Doris Lessing

When Emily Dickinson's poems were published in the 1890s, they were a best-seller; the first book of her poems went through eleven…

— Robert Hass

My shoulders sagged. Really, is it too much to ask that I be able to come home from a long day of…

— Meg Cabot

Every discoverer of a new truth, or inventor of the method which evolves it, makes a dozen, perhaps fifty, useless combinations, experiments,…

— Henry Jacob Bigelow

How do we solve the problem by allowing a number of refugees to return to Israel, allowing a number of refugees to…

— Uri Avnery

“Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the…

— Anonymous

I have now reigned above fifty years in victory and peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by…

— Abd-ar-Rahman III

For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.

— Benito Mussolini

And now, with the aid of this common beer glass, I shall play my fifty guinea solo.

— Kenny Baker

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

— Allan Gurganus

I've been married fifty-five years and I've been home three weeks.

— Bob Hope

I turn my girl on like fifty shades of grey.

— Drew Chadwick

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

— Stendhal

Bushido is in being crazy to die. Fifty or more could not kill one such a man.

— Nabeshima Naoshige

Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.

— Carolyn Heilbrun