Fifty Quotes

The problem with me is that I am fifty or one hundred years ahead of my time. My speed is very fast. Some ministers have had to drop out of my government because they could not keep up.

If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

I always said marriage should be a fifty-fifty proposition. He should be at least fifty years old, and have at least fifty-million dollars.

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

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.

When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.

If we had fifty Eichmann's, we would have won the war.

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

If I give you a forty five percent chance at lethal injection, a fifty percent chance at the electric chair, and a five percent chance for escape which are you going to vote for? The electric chair, because youre likely to win?

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

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.

The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.

And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

Never trust a man who can dance.

Every woman over fifty should stay in bed until noon.

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.

There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.

Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.

For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.

I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.

I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.