I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me â€“ I didnâ€™t know I knew that then. Or maybe I didnâ€™t know it then, and I know more now.

Maya Angelou

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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

Nancy Astor

Admit Am Does Even

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Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.

Walter Dean Myers

Book Books Child Children

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Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Coco Chanel

Face Fifty Merit Nature

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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.

George Eliot

Always Asked Being Between

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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

Extraordinary Fifty Machine Man

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Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Marilyn Monroe

Cents Dollars Fifty Hollywood

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Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.

Dwight L. Moody

Dabble Fifty Give Man

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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

Babe Ruth

Bed Dollars Drinking Earlier

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Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

Edgar Degas

Everyone Talent Twenty-five Difficulty

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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Victor Hugo

Age Fifty Forty Old

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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Margaret Atwood

Because Had Important Love

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A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Muhammad Ali

Did Fifty He His

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The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Heyday Woman's life Shady side

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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

Forty People Histories Options

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Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.

Garrison Keillor

Beauty Worth thinking Mind Haircut

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In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

Lauren Bacall

Divorce Each Equitable Fifty

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I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't want to have to give anybody seventy; I don't want anybody to give me seventy. I want fifty.

James Dean

Always Anybody Anything Enough

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When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.

Tom Lehrer

When you Food becomes More important Than sex

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Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.

Billy Sunday

Made Complete surrender You nothing Reformed

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Marriage feels outdated instead can we just hang out together for the next fifty years

Conan Gray

Marriage Outdated Hang out Together

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Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.

Doris Lessing

Remember The book Bores you Are twenty

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I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me â€“ I didnâ€™t know I knew that then. Or maybe I didnâ€™t know it then, and I know more now.

Maya Angelou

I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

Nancy Astor

Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.

Walter Dean Myers

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Coco Chanel

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.

George Eliot

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Marilyn Monroe

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.

Dwight L. Moody

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

Babe Ruth

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

Edgar Degas

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Victor Hugo

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Margaret Atwood

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Muhammad Ali

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.

Garrison Keillor

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

Lauren Bacall

I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't want to have to give anybody seventy; I don't want anybody to give me seventy. I want fifty.

James Dean

When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.

Tom Lehrer

Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.

Billy Sunday

Marriage feels outdated instead can we just hang out together for the next fifty years

Conan Gray

Doris Lessing

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