(126 quotes found)
“Yesterday in Egypt, archaeologists discovered the burial site for the 50 children of Ramses II... Fifty children! What I want to know is, who decided to name a condom after this guy?”
Conan O'Brien
“Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.”
Camille Paglia
“A person with a hundred interests is twice as alive as one with only fifty and four times as alive as the man who has only twenty-five”
Norman Vincent Peale
“Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.”
Brooks Robinson
“I'm fifty-six and still a Virgo”
Liz Carpenter
“One has to be able to count, if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty”
Maxim Gorky
“It is a good deal better to be seventy-nine years young than it is to be fifty years old”
Albert Smith
“When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty. I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.”
Erik Satie
“When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.”
George Burns
“This is what fifty looks like. We’ve been lying so long, who would know?”
Gloria Steinem
