Fifty Quotes

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. (Aristotle)
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
At fifty everyone has the face he deserves. View quote
George Orwell
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got. View quote
Sophia Loren
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. View quote
Edgar Degas
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. View quote
Victor Hugo
I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson. View quote
Emo Philips
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Homesickness is nothing ... Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. View quote
John Cheever
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. (Baltasar Gracián)
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. View quote
H. G. Wells
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years. View quote
Stendhal
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. View quote
Wendell Willkie
One has to be able to count, if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. View quote
Maxim Gorky
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases. View quote
André Malraux
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. View quote
Norman Borlaug
They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours. View quote
Jack Kerouac
I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun. View quote
Babe Ruth
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents. (Marilyn Monroe)
The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe. View quote
Le Corbusier
We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us. View quote
Joseph Stalin
Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less. View quote
Albert Einstein