Fifty Quote by Adlai E. Stevenson Download Open image “What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.” — Adlai E. Stevenson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fifty Knows
The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Men who have reached and passed 45, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
A person with a hundred interests is twice as alive as one with only fifty and four times as alive as the man who… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
“...at twenty-one or twenty-two so many things appear solid and permanent and terrible which forty sees are nothing but disappearing miasma. Forty can't tell… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and… — Gerard Depardieu Copy Share Image
A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer. — Mae West Copy Share Image
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“It seemed like everything I knew at twenty-five morphed into everything I didn't know by twenty-six, when I was suddenly hit with the realization… — Renée Carlino Copy Share Image
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs. — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world. ” — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.” — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is,… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
When you find someone you want to spend forever with you, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
What comes to mind when you think of heaven? Heaven is referred to in fifty-four of the Bible's sixty-six books, and the final two… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because… — Mark McGwire Copy Share Image
It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share
Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy. — Yehuda Levi Copy Share Image
...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Last night we had three small zucchini for dinner that were grown within fifty feet of our back door. I estimate they cost somewhere… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Time starts out as a notion. But after you turn fifty, time is not a notion anymore but a fact that you start feeling… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image