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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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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.
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Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO![]()
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO By the age of fifty, people are cooked.
BRUCE CARLSON And then the clock collected in the tower / Its strength and struck.
A. E. HOUSMAN![]()
Goodness me, the clock has struck-
Alackday, and fuck my luck.
KURT VONNEGUT![]()
Seven hundred and fifty miles per hour. Eight hundred. Eight hundred and three. Fast. Very fast.” ...
RICK RIORDAN I know now why Franz Schubert Never finished his unfinished symphony He would have written more but ...
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Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to gre...
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The lunches of fifty-seven years had caused his chest to slip down to the mezzanine floor.
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The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I r...
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More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.
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I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.
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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which...
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As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential wo...
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At the age of fifty-six Eleanor Stoddard was still a beautiful woman. She owned three hotels in Fran...
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He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disap...
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The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.
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R.A.DELMONICO When I played three-on-three with twenty-year-olds when I was fifty, I didn't care if the guy was si...
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My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at e...
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The book thief had struck for the first time - the beginning of an illustrious career.
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Pünd remembered their first case together when Fraser had failed to notice that his travelling comp...
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ROBERT BLY![]()
Your stepfather? I'd like to meet him."
Oh no... why?
"I'm not sure that's a good idea." E.L. JAMES ![]()
When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As...
PHILIP EMEAGWALI![]()
If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at b...
JIM BUTCHER The truck driver had felt sorry for them. They were close in age to a child of his own,
BILL WARD![]()
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight ...
GEORGE ORWELL![]()
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight ...
GEORGE ORWELL![]()
Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.
JANE AUSTEN The president can do his job in eight years and the governor can do his job in eight years. If gover...
MAX LINN The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.
WOLFGANG HILDESHEIMER [Dana Bible, the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, agreed.] Two years ago he would have ...
BIBLE I grew up singing since the age of three. Vocally trained since the age of eight. Fascinated by Mary...
NIKKI BLONSKY![]()
Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fi...
GORE VIDAL (Johnson) had a couple of streaks where he would put up eight points in a matter of 45 seconds. He h...
BRIAN VOYLES If this hurricane had struck a white, middle-class neighborhood in the Northeast or the Southwest, h...
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The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the pres...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Wherever I am, I start my day, it's the same. I'm not an early bird. I'm not waking up a...
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SOPHIE TUCKER Even though our first drive we took off eight minutes off the clock to score, the defense really set...
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Don't die on me," she whispered when the clock struck midnight and he still had not moved. "It's onl...
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The former party chief's health had until recently been largely adequate for a man of his age, but h...
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Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and ...
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The patch of lawn before it had relapsed into a hayfield; but to the left an overgrown box-garden fu...
EDITH WHARTON because of his age.
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A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our pres...
CONFUCIUS![]()
With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets—what nonsense was he ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Those who go around acting in egotism are struck down by the Messenger of Death with his club.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB We had eight on the side that he had withdrawn from his life in the Mafia. Four felt he was still in...
GREG ROSENBLUM I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like g...
GEORGE MONTGOMERY![]()
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that ma...
JOHN STEINBECK![]()
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of...
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One touch of His (God’s) favor can put you fifty years ahead of where you thought you’d be.
JOEL OSTEEN![]()
And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I fir...
JULIUS ERVING![]()
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Vlad's heart sank into his stomach, then squeezed its way down his leg and popped out of the hole in...
HEATHER BREWER With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.
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Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their bell...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS![]()
Love is for fools, Christian.
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N.D. WILSON![]()
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his effi...
WALTER SCOTT![]()
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his effi...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
BENEVENUTO CELLINI
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty. EDWARD HOAGLAND
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
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. VICTOR HUGO
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. VICTOR HUGO By the age of fifty, people are cooked.
BRUCE CARLSON And then the clock collected in the tower / Its strength and struck.
A. E. HOUSMAN
Goodness me, the clock has struck-Alackday, and fuck my luck.
KURT VONNEGUT
Seven hundred and fifty miles per hour. Eight hundred. Eight hundred and three. Fast. Very fast.” ... RICK RIORDAN I know now why Franz Schubert Never finished his unfinished symphony He would have written more but ...
JOHN BALDREY
Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to gre... ZIG ZIGLAR
The lunches of fifty-seven years had caused his chest to slip down to the mezzanine floor. P. G. WODEHOUSE
The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I r... WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN (His true personality) struck me in the first moments. He had that academic air.
MICHAEL DONAHOE
At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan t... CHARLES EASTMAN
In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's f... BRIAN SELZNICK and tell me you love me, come back and haunt me oh and I rush to the start..running in circles, chas...
COLDPLAY
More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now. BRIAN ENO
I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen. JAN KARON [Then they promptly blew through all those deadlines, and took the clock down to 32 seconds before t...
MIKE TICE We got to the Big Dance and the slipper fit, but the clock struck 12. To get to the (state) champion...
STEVE BOURGARD
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – wo... C.S. LEWIS
Let me share a famous life history with you. This was a man who failed in business at the age of twe... SHIV KHERA We put the ball in play quite a bit at Grants. We only struck out eight times the whole day.
ALAN EDMONDSON His life was duck hunting on Little Tail Point, and if we should be so lucky, he died in his duck bl...
DAN OLSON
When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivi... MARGERY ALLINGHAM At the age of eight I became, in my own eyes at least, a writer.
ZILPHA KEATLEY SNYDER
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have s... KHALIL GIBRAN
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have s... KAHLIL GIBRAN
Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon ... J.K. ROWLING A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched ...
PATRICK MACGILL I think you're a good person or a todd by the age of eight.
BRUCE ROBINSON I was immediately struck by his genuine personality, his intelligence, his sense of humor and his lo...
MARIA LETONA
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your ... MARYA MANNES
At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air. VLADIMIR NABOKOV
There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw... ELISABETH ELLIOT I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which... W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE
As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential wo... HARUKI MURAKAMI
At the age of fifty-six Eleanor Stoddard was still a beautiful woman. She owned three hotels in Fran... BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD At the age of four he had his first race. From then on it's just been nuts.
WAYNE WEAKLEY
He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disap... FRANZ KAFKA
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo. TERRY PRATCHETT
If a photon is emitted by an electron inside of a clock on Earth and it travels to a clock four ligh... R.A.DELMONICO When I played three-on-three with twenty-year-olds when I was fifty, I didn't care if the guy was si...
JAMES CAAN The railway was part scalpel, part movie camera, slicing the city open, parading its inner workings ...
PHILIP SINGTON
Njeriu jeton jo vetëm jetën e vet personale, por, me vetëdije apo pa vetëdije edhe atë të epok... THOMAS MANN His career was only eight months long, and during that time we had moved from the ghetto to an upper...
BOB MORALES
There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clo... ED MCMAHON It's tragic when someone's struck down at such a young age, and Auburn University extends its condol...
DAVID GRANGER It was almost Christmas, and Renzo was preparing all the delicacies Florentines must eat at the fest...
MARTINE BAILEY
My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at e... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The book thief had struck for the first time - the beginning of an illustrious career. MARKUS ZUSAK
Pünd remembered their first case together when Fraser had failed to notice that his travelling comp... ANTHONY HOROWITZ I know a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty than they have ever been before, because a lot of...
ROBERT BLY
Your stepfather? I'd like to meet him."Oh no... why?
"I'm not sure that's a good idea."
When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As... PHILIP EMEAGWALI
If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at b... JIM BUTCHER The truck driver had felt sorry for them. They were close in age to a child of his own,
BILL WARD
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight ... GEORGE ORWELL
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight ... GEORGE ORWELL
Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not. JANE AUSTEN The president can do his job in eight years and the governor can do his job in eight years. If gover...
MAX LINN The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.
WOLFGANG HILDESHEIMER [Dana Bible, the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, agreed.] Two years ago he would have ...
BIBLE I grew up singing since the age of three. Vocally trained since the age of eight. Fascinated by Mary...
NIKKI BLONSKY
Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fi... GORE VIDAL (Johnson) had a couple of streaks where he would put up eight points in a matter of 45 seconds. He h...
BRIAN VOYLES If this hurricane had struck a white, middle-class neighborhood in the Northeast or the Southwest, h...
CALVIN BUTTS
The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the pres... NICHOLAS SPARKS Wherever I am, I start my day, it's the same. I'm not an early bird. I'm not waking up a...
ROUSTAM TARIKO From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good ...
SOPHIE TUCKER Even though our first drive we took off eight minutes off the clock to score, the defense really set...
ANTONIO MOORE
Don't die on me," she whispered when the clock struck midnight and he still had not moved. "It's onl... TAMORA PIERCE The driver veered off the roadway edge where his motorcycle struck a section of guardrail causing an...
CHUCK ALLEN
The former party chief's health had until recently been largely adequate for a man of his age, but h... ZHAO ZIYANG The average age of the diesel mechanic that's out there working, over 50 percent of the work force i...
ALAN YODER
Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and ... JOAN COLLINS
The patch of lawn before it had relapsed into a hayfield; but to the left an overgrown box-garden fu... EDITH WHARTON because of his age.
JAMES BUCHANAN
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our pres... CONFUCIUS
With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets—what nonsense was he ... VIRGINIA WOOLF Those who go around acting in egotism are struck down by the Messenger of Death with his club.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB We had eight on the side that he had withdrawn from his life in the Mafia. Four felt he was still in...
GREG ROSENBLUM I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like g...
GEORGE MONTGOMERY
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that ma... JOHN STEINBECK
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of... PETER JENNINGS
One touch of His (God’s) favor can put you fifty years ahead of where you thought you’d be. JOEL OSTEEN
And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I fir... JULIUS ERVING
Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money. DENNIS RODMAN
Vlad's heart sank into his stomach, then squeezed its way down his leg and popped out of the hole in... HEATHER BREWER With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.
RANDY BACHMAN I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russk...
C. THOMAS HOWELL
Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their bell... DESIDERIUS ERASMUS
Love is for fools, Christian. E.L. JAMES Tom had traveled around the sun eleven times when the delivery truck brought his mother's newest fri...
N.D. WILSON
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his effi... WALTER SCOTT
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his effi... SIR WALTER SCOTT
