fifty quotes

At fifty you havethe choice of keeping your face or your figure and it's much better to keep your face.

- Dame (Mary) Barbara Hamilton Cartland
  In the Daily Mail,10  Jul.

Everybody has talent at twenty-five. The difficult thing is to have it at fifty.

- (Hilaire Germain) Edgar Degas
Quoted in R H Ives Gammell The Shop-Talk of Edgar Degas (1961).

It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

- SirArthur Conan Doyle
  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,'The Red-Headed League'.

   Fear of Fifty.

- Erica ne  e Mann Jong
   Title of memoir.