Fifty Quotes

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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. — Margaret Atwood
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity. — Lauren Bacall
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace. — Bernard Baruch
For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved. — Charles Baudelaire
It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour. — Carol Bellamy
If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. — Tony Benn
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. — Josh Billings
I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with.… — Kate Bosworth
In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I… — Lakhdar Brahimi
Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed.… — Jan Brewer
Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international… — Abdallah II
The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of… — Herman Cain
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. — Muhammad Ali
My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. — Coco Chanel
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. — John Cheever
I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks. — Cher
Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you. — Red Cloud
This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses. — Susan B. Anthony
If you are not financially independent by the time you are forty or fifty, it doesn't mean that you are living in the wrong country… — Jim Rohn

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