Fifty Quotes

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

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

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 you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

I don't remember what I did fifty years ago.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

Tires were so bald on the truck that the air was showin' through, and I had to drive fifty miles an hour all the way out there, because the vibration was so bad.

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 the taxes. By most people's standards, that's already fair. The President is playing the class warfare card because he knows that a lot of people may never hear that particular fact. But it's a fact.

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

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

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 possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.

Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.

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

From here it sounds great to say we'll all get together soon, but all I know is this: you can call me fifty days or fifty years from now and I'll be glad to see you.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

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 an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.

I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then.

When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons.

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

The greatest thing is nobody cares that I'm fifty years old. They only care what I sound like.

Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop.

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

Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.