Fifty Quotes

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

With cyber bullying, you can't escape from it. Fifty-four percent of the kids who were bullied said they didn't know who was bullying them on the Internet.

The chances are fifty-sixty.

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

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

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.

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.

It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.

But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty.

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

If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated.

I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example.

Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

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

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.

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.

Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.

There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.

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 has a fifty percent chance of being right.

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 don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.