Best Fifty Year Olds Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.”

Knows Men Years Children Guy Acting Responsibility Wind Baseball Noses Fifty Taking Responsibility Caps Shorts Old Guys Conscription Baseball Caps Fifty Year Olds

Author:Chrissie Hynde

“When you're a fifty-year-old woman, no one really bothers to look at you anymore, much less value your opinion. It's hard on the old ego. But damn, it does make it easy to get away with a lot.”

Years Looks Doe Hard Age Values Easy Opinion Ego Bother Damn Fifty Get Away Middle Ages Old Woman Easy To Get Fifty Year Olds

Book:The Rizzoli & Isles Series 9-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl

Source: The Rizzoli & Isles Series 9-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl

“I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with a little age and reflection; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air.”

Ifs Giving Years Wells Littles Made Care Age Young Sides Too Much Air Fine Fit Clothes Reflection Twenties Dresses Fellows Take Care Fifty Forty Excess Awkward Stink Fifty Year Olds

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”

“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.”

Should Years Said Millions Dollars Fifty Propositions Million Dollars Fifty Year Olds

Author:Zsa Zsa Gabor

“Face the facts, all these environmental organizations are thirty, forty, fifty years old. They have big buildings, big obligations, big staffs. They may trade on their youthful dreams, but the truth is, they're now part of the establishment. And the establishment works to preserve the status quo. It just does.”

Years May Doe Facts Dream Bigs Faces Building Truth Is Organization Trade Environmental Obligation Preserves Thirty Fifty Forty Establishment Status Quo Fifty Year Olds

Author:Michael Crichton

“Full House was a show that was done for ten-year-olds. The critics hated it. They said terrible, terrible things about it. But it should have been reviewed by ten-year-olds. That's who it was made for. They loved it. And if they loved it, great. Why the hell does a fifty-year-old guy working at a big newspaper have to tell me I'm a piece of crap?”

“It is a very wonderful experience indeed, when, at fifty years old, you suddenly discover that for the first time in your life, you are really free to be yourself.”

Years Firsts Wonderful First Time Being Yourself Fifty Old You Wonderful Experience Fifty Year Olds

Book:I leap over the wall: a return to the world after twenty-eight years in a convent

Source: I leap over the wall: a return to the world after twenty-eight years in a convent

“The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through all of them, and I know what it’s like. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.”

“There will be all these fifty-year-old women wearing hot pants and squeezing themselves into pretzel shapes and then there will be me. Just reaching for my toes like they're China. 'Hello there! You're so far away, I can't get to you! Can you even hear me?”

Years I Can Shapes Hot China Fifty Reaching Pants Far Away Toes Hello Old Woman Squeezing Pretzels Fifty Year Olds Hot Pants

Book:The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

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

Knows Years Whole Understood Whole Life Fifty Do You Know Funny Things Fifty Year Olds

Author:Richard Yates

“I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost.”

Knows Men Feels Writing Years I Can Lost Known Regret Being True Tone Fifty Deaf Fifty Year Olds

Book:The Children of Men

Source: The Children of Men

“I'm not really sure what makes a book a 'classic' to begin with, but I think it has to be at least fifty years old and some person or animal has to die at the end.”

Thinking Years Persons Book Ends Dies Animal Classic Fifty Fifty Year Olds

Author:Jeff Kinney

“This was a memory I wanted to keep, whole, and recall again and again. When I was fifty years old I wanted to remember this moment on the porch, holding hands with Cameron while he shared himself with me. I didn’t want it to be something on the fringes of my memory like so many other things about Cameron and myself.”

Want Years Whole Moments Hands Wanted Remember Memories Fifty Recalls Again And Again Fringe Holding Hands Porch Cameron Fifty Year Olds

Author:Sara Zarr

“I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.”

Years Able Forever Scripts Fifty Floating Chicks Fifty Year Olds

Author:Cher

“Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.”

Years Mind Body Change Fifty Fifty Year Olds

Author:Raquel Welch

“50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point?”

People Ifs Years Love Is Fifty Birthday Finding Yourself What You Love 50th Birthday Doing What You Love Inspirational Birthday Turning 50 Fifty Year Olds

Author:Jim Carrey

“Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.”

Years Stills Age Fighting Aging Fifty Birthday 50th Birthday Inspirational Birthday Fifty Year Olds

Author:Muhammad Ali

“The truth is, part of me is every age. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.”

Thinking Men Children I Can Age My Own Wise Truth Is Delight Appropriate Old Man Fifty Year Olds

Author:Morrie Schwartz

“When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old”

Years Sleep Wake Up Fifty Sleeping Beauty Fifty Year Olds

Author:Maxine Kumin