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)