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There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone. -- Robert Bly
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty. -- Alexander Hamilton
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. -- Victor Hugo
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. -- Hosea Ballou
People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do. -- Oscar Hijuelos
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. -- Marya Mannes
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty. -- William Ralph Inge
I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis. -- George Montgomery
Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century. -- John Lahr
My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Maine, at the ripe old age of fifty with someone I deeply love and am very happy with. That's part of why I started the blog. -- Kate Christensen
I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years. -- Bob Geldof
Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had. -- Annie Lennox
With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.' -- Rachel Johnson
The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about. -- S. Jay Olshansky
I made about fifty-four dollars a week and spent it on two flying lessons every week at the age of sixteen and was able to get a license then pretty early and knew that that's what I wanted to do, some kind of a career in aviation. I did know about space flight, but at that point, it was still pretty far out there. -- Kevin A. Ford
Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age -- Victor Hugo
The ideal age for a boy to own a dog is between forty-five and fifty. -- Robert Benchley
It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction ... -- Gwendolyn Brooks
Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options. -- Ellen Goodman
Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years. -- Jonathan Swift
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally â?? and often far more â?? worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. -- C. S. Lewis

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