Fifty Quotes

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We talk about spreading democracy and freedom all over the world, but they are to us words rather than conditions. We haven't even got them… — Charles Lindbergh
The Bible is a warm letter of affection from a parent to a child; and yet there are many who see chiefly the severer passages.… — Thomas De Witt Talmage
The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws… — Bill Vaughan
[Hemingway] always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that in fifty years… — John Dos Passos
"Are we alone in the universe?" This is a question which goes back to the dawn of history, but for most of human history it… — Paul Davies
I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty. — Samuel Goldwyn
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. — Maxim Gorky
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy… — Baltasar Gracian
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent. — Charles Caleb Colton
I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all… — Christopher Columbus
If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation… — Bill Cosby
Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time. — Roger Daltrey
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work. — W. Edwards Deming
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. — Edgar Degas
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… — George Eliot
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty. — Alexander Hamilton
Do I envy Madonna's body? Yes. Do I thank God that she has it? Yes! If you're fifty-something and you look like Madonna, and you… — Salma Hayek
The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the… — Tom Hodgkinson
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. — Elbert Hubbard
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. — Victor Hugo

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