Fifty Quotes · Page 5

I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

— Clifford Stoll

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

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Alexander Hamilton

If you feel a bump on page one hundred, it may be you went off on page fifty.

— E. L. Doctorow

But if two and two and fifty make a million,...

— Pete Seeger

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

— Wendell Willkie

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

— Laurence J. Peter

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah…

— Mark Twain

When a puppy takes fifty catnaps in the course of the day, he cannot always be expected to sleep the night through.

— Albert Payson Terhune

Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to…

— Nigel Gibson

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

— Gore Vidal

Ideally, you want to be in a fifty-fifty power-sharing arrangement with the audience - both of you are there for a mutually…

— Franklyn Ajaye

A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!

— William Osler

Physically stalking as opposed to Instagram stalking, which was kind of great. Leila [from Fifty Shades Darker ] puts my Insta stalking…

— Bella Heathcote

English actors feel vaguely apologetic for being there at all. American actors know that the most important thing is to get one…

— Helen Mirren

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days. When you have someone like Cheney…

— John Pilger

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is…

— Christopher Columbus

Have you ever noticed that things that don’t kill you make you weaker? And great minds don’t think alike. If they did,…

— Scott Adams

He was going to be armed with his wand - which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip of…

— Anonymous

I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins…

— Laurence Sterne

Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty…

— Clare Boothe Luce

I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

For the last one hundred and fifty years, the history of the House of Rothschild has been to an amazing degree the…

— Frederic Morton

Sometimes, the Angel [of Music] leans over the cradle... and that is how there are little prodigies who play the fiddle at…

— Gaston Leroux

My writing is of a very different kind from anything I've heard about. All this mythological material is out there, a big…

— Joseph Campbell

For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big…

— Alan Sillitoe

Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me…

— Thomas A. Edison

There is a reckoning coming, a reckoning between humanity and the Jewish people which will cause the very heavens to darken and…

— Harold Covington

Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

GOOD MORNING," said the little prince. "Good Morning," said the salesclerk. This was a salesclerk who sold pills invented to quench thirst.…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

— Christopher Marlowe

Its amazing that Lou Ferrigno can talk with fifty pounds of cracker in his mouth.

— Bobby Heenan

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

— Ted Williams

There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

— Tony Benn

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

— Hans Zimmer

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

— Davy Jones

Fifty percent of life in the NBA is sex. The other 50 percent is money.

— Dennis Rodman