If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
~ Alfred Bester
How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be thin is upon them, can lose completely their sense of balance and proportion and spend years dealing with this madness.
~ Kathryn Hurn
Five people with passion can do better than fifty people with mere desire or interest.
~ Israelmore Ayivor
Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
~ Gore Vidal
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
~ Wendell Willkie
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
~ Hosea Ballou
I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
~ Jean Giraudoux
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
~ Bruce Sterling
Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.
~ Eric Sevareid