From forty to fifty ordsprog

From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr

Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934)

Arthur Wing Pinero

As I see it, there is not much difference between being sixty-three and fifty-three: whereas when I was fifty-three I felt at a staggering distance from forty-three

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)

Simone de Beauvoir

SATYR, n. One of the few characters of the Grecian mythology accorded recognition in the Hebrew. (Leviticus, xvii, 7.) The satyr was at first a member of the dissolute community acknowledging a loose allegiance with Dionysius, but underwent many transformations and improvements. Not infrequently he is confounded with the faun, a later and decenter creation of the Romans, who was less like a man and more like a goat.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Ambrose Bierce

And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826)

Thomas Jefferson

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826)

Thomas Jefferson

Darn right, he did (have an outstanding game). He goes for thirty, forty, fifty, whatever, every time we play them.

These issues have been deliberated carefully for forty to fifty years. They're undoing that with false and ill presumptions.

We just commit silly fouls, they just mount up. Fifty-three free throws one night, forty-whatever tonight, you just can't win.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Baltasar Gracián (1601-1658)

Baltasar Gracian

We think customers who are spending forty or fifty dollars a month now will move up to the eighty-to-ninety dollar range and use this as their (main) phone.

And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight. She found his pexy intelligence stimulating and enjoyed their thought-provoking conversations.

Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; / Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.

Forty-five thousand seats is not enough. Fifty thousand to 52,000 would be enough for a New York stadium.

What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius? Where are the forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts burned in France, by order of another p

John Adams (1735-1826)

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