Fifty

Famous quotes containing the word fifty:

    Now, of my threescore years and ten,
    Twenty will not come again,
    And take from seventy springs a score,
    It only leaves me fifty more.
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)

    In America, every female under fifty calls herself a “girl.”
    H.E. Bates, British screenwriter, and David Lean. Jane Hudson (Katherine Hepburn)

    I’m aiming by the time I’m fifty to stop being an adolescent.
    Wendy Cope (b. 1945)