Fifty Quotes

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He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred… — P.G. Wodehouse
It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of… — Thomas Jefferson
A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry-that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three Mile Island. — Johnny Carson
I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female. — Ray Floyd
America has never forgotten - and will never forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path - the… — Bernard Baruch
A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty. — William Feather
Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body. — Raquel Welch
I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase. — Henny Youngman
Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they… — Mark Twain
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I… — Bruce Sterling
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
From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what… — Marya Mannes
Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised… — Mark Twain
[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature-a singularly… — Jacob Bronowski
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2… — Ronald Fisher
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in touch… — Charles Lindbergh
There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is… — Robert Bly
Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time.… — Mark Twain
I think it's about time we legalize marijuana... We either put people who are smoking marijuana behind bars or we legalize it, but this little… — Glenn Beck

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