Fifty Quotes

• Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.

  

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson
  • Drink
  • Birthday
  • Tonight

• He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

  

  William Cowper
  • World
  • Purpose
  • Littles

• The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Years
  • Analysis
  • Repetition

• I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Important
  • Film
  • Four

• For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • People
  • Dream
  • Fifty

• The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Job
  • Opportunity
  • Average

• I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.

  

  Red Grange
  • School
  • Play
  • Football

• Fifty-dollar oil is just another stop on the road to much higher crude prices.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • Dollars
  • Higher
  • Crude

• Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Habit
  • Becoming
  • Afford

• Us Asians look like we're twenty until we're fifty. Once we're fifty, we look like Yoda.

  

  Dat Phan
  • Looks
  • Twenties
  • Until

• I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

  

  Wilbur Wright
  • Brother
  • Confess
  • Fifty

• You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Audience
  • Hours
  • Nervous

• Fifty - it's going to be for the rest of my life. I'm going to count myself as a 50-year-old, sing like I'm 50, and act like I am, too. That's how I feel, and I believe if you have that frame of mind, it keeps you young.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Life
  • Fifty
  • Frame Of Mind

• When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.

  

  Trevor Rabin Cinema
  • Song
  • Ideas
  • Feels

• One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.

  

  William Petersen
  • Giving
  • Responsibility
  • Reason

• You don't have to get doughty or, suddenly, because you have a new label on you, 'Oh, I'm 50, so therefore, I have to be a certain thing.' Follow your heart and look at your rear view as well as your front view!

  

  Susan Lucci
  • Heart
  • Follow
  • Label

• I guess if I had fifty million dollars I could spend more time at home.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Home
  • Dollars
  • Fifty

• You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousand dollars.

  

  Miriam Hopkins
  • Thousand
  • Fifty
  • Retorts

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