36 Fantastic 50th Birthday Sayings:
50 year old; one owner; needs parts; make offer. ~Unknown Author
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it’s up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
~ Coco Chanel
Looking fifty is great–if you’re sixty.
~ Joan Rivers 50th birthday quote
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
~French Proverb
The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Me 50? I demand a recount!
~ 50th birthday saying by Unknown Author
Being fifty takes stamina and endurance that even youth doesn’t offer.
~Unknown Author
~ 50th birthday saying found on a coffee mugThe only way to relieve the frustration of being fifty-something is to constantly seek new ways of irritating the young. Fortunately in old age, you develop the ability to do this naturally in every single thing you do or say.
~Unknown Author
In your fifties time becomes precious and must not be wasted – every minute is an excellent opportunity for a good nap.
~Unknown Author
To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
I refuse to admit I’m more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
~ Lady Nancy Astor
Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, “ye cannot enter the kingdom of God.” One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
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?
~ Jim Carrey
Happy 1/2 way to 100!
~Unknown Author
When you’re fifty-something children innocently ask you if you had a pet dinosaur when you were young.
~Unknown Author
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming… suddenly you find – at the age of 50, say – that a whole new life has opened before you.
~ Agatha Christie
After a man is 50, you can fool him by saying he is smart, but you can’t fool him by saying he’s pretty.
~E W House
Your fifties is the stage in your life when you become mature, reliable and dependable. In other words, boring, predictable and conventional.
~Unknown Author
At age 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
~ George Orwell
I’m not 50, I’m 49.95, plus tax!
~ 50th birthday expressions found on a t-shirt
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
~ Muhammad Ali
Fifty! Now is the time to make your mark on the world – explore the Antarctic or become an astronaut. Make your mind up to take on exciting new challenges – straight after your afternoon nap.
~Unknown Author
You take all of the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn’t be enough left to run it.
~ Henry Ford
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
~ T. S. Eliot
I’m aiming by the time I’m fifty to stop being an adolescent.
~ Wendy Cope
There are numerous advantages in being fifty – ask any eighty year old!!!
~Unknown Author
At fifty you’ve accumulated the knowledge and wisdom of half a century. This would be a tremendous asset if only darned senility hadn’t wiped your memory bank.
~Unknown Author
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
~Alan Bleasdale
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
~ Marie Dressler
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
~ Edward Hoagland
At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won’t be imprisoned anymore.
~Erica Jong
Everyone over 50 should be issued every week with a wet fish in a plastic bag by the Post Office so that, whenever you see someone young and happy, you can hit them as hard as you can across the face.
~Richard Griffiths
Don’t trust anyone under 50.
~Unknown Author
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
Just because a woman is over fifty does not mean she no longer has anything to offer. If anything, we have so much more to offer! We have lived life, we get better with age. I do my best work now in my 60s. Sure, I could retire; but what would I do? Play Bingo? I think not!
~Donna Wells
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