“If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.”
Tony Benn
“The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”
Contributed by: Andy James
Muhammad Ali
“At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.”
George Orwell
“It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes”
Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.
“The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.”
W. Edwards Deming
“For many years the National Pretend Speed Limit was fifty-five miles per hour (metric equivalent: 378 kilograms per hectare.)”
Dave Barry
“As I see it, there is not much difference between being sixty-three and fifty-three: whereas when I was fifty-three I felt at a staggering distance from forty-three”
Simone de Beauvoir