When you were young, 50 years seemed old. You couldn’t even imagine that one day you too would reach that age. But the years go by and here you are. But the strangest thing is that now you look around and see that things are not so bad. 50 is an amazing time of life – one where everything starts to make sense and you feel truly comfortable in your own skin.
Keep reading and browse through our carefully selected section of quotes about turning 50. We’ve also included some tips and tricks to make these years work for you.
Funny Quotes About Turning 50
“Fifty is a weird age. I can clearly remember my childhood, but I can’t remember where I put my keys.“
Melanie White
“Turning 50 means it’s only a matter of time before you’re regaling your grandkids with tales of your first colonoscopy.“
Greg Tamblyn
“The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.“
Dave Barry
“Age is not important unless you’re a cheese.“
Helen Hayes
“I’m 50, and the only thing getting thinner is my skin.“
Melanie White
“We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.“
Will Rogers
“There is a direct relationship between age and the amount of noise you make when getting up. If you sit too long, everything solidifies.“
Janet Periat
“My 50th birthday wish: that I had as much silver in my safe as I have in my hair.“
Melanie White
“Sex in your 50s is mostly just remembering what it is you did last time that threw your back out.“
Unknown
“Here I am, approaching 50 years old, with two daughters that refuse to stay 10-years-old no matter how many times I ask them.“
Joe Posnanski
“In your 20s: Looking for your perfect match. In your 50s: Just happy if your socks match.“
East of Sweden
“At 50 you wish all movies over an hour long would have an intermission.“
Unknown
“Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.“
Franklin Pierce Adams
“Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.“
Kin Hubbard
“There’s nothing stressful about turning 50 – except people reminding you about it.“
Melanie White
“When I turn 50, instead of lying about my age and putting it back 10 years, I’ll put it forward 10 years so I can freely talk about my bowel movements.“
Unknown
“Fifty and time to face the facial truth. You’ve got wrinkle cream defeated.“
Melanie White
“When you’re 50 and wake up without any aches and pains, you know it’s going to be a good day.“
Melanie White
“When you’re 50, you know you’re in great shape if you still have one.“
Melanie White
“Looking 50 is great – if you’re 60.“
Joan Rivers
“Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.“
Joey Adams
“Why is it when you’re 50 that you seem to forget everything except how old you are?“
Melanie White
“The longer you meditate about being 50, the more likely you are to fall asleep.“
Melanie White
“You’re never too old to become younger.“
Mae West
“Now that I’m 50, people try to be polite, and instead of calling me old, they say I’m mature. Obviously, they don’t know me very well.“
Melanie White
“Do you remember when 50 seemed old? Good, your memory still works.“
Melanie White
“When you’re 50, every time you look in the mirror you think it must be April Fools Day.“
Melanie White
“Don’t call them age spots; they’re big freckles.“
Melanie White
“A man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty. Then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.“
William Faulkner
“At 50, I think it’d be a lot easier to relax if I didn’t have to work another 15 years.“
Melanie White
Thought-Provoking Quotes About Turning 50
“A man has reached middle age when he’s warned to slow down by his doctor instead of the police.”
Henry Youngman
“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
“There’s nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it.”
Muhammad Ali
“As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.”
Criss Jami
“At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ and now, at 79, I am gold.”
Oliver Sacks
“I’ve got a sizeable retirement nest egg. It’s an ostrich egg and it’s going to make an omelet so big that it’ll produce enough leftovers for decades.”
Jarod Kintz
“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
Sylvia Townsend Warner
“Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.”
Alain de Botton
“Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.”
Gloria Steinem
“Now is the time to become a myth.”
Diane Von Furstenberg
“When I grow up, I want to be an old woman.”
Michelle Shocked
“Wisdom comes with winters.”
Oscar Wilde
“You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.”
George Bernard Shaw
“It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited, to look in the eyes and find light there.”
John O-Donohue
“Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.”
Brian Rathbone
Inspirational Quotes About Turning 50
“When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.”
Mark Twain
“I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.”
Alan Bleasdale
“In terms of days and moments lived, you’ll never again be as young as you are right now, so spend this day, the youth of your future, in a way that deflects regret. Invest in yourself. Have some fun. Do something important. Love somebody extra. In one sense, you’re just a kid, but a kid with enough years on her to know that every day is priceless.”
Victoria Moran
“Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter and animation and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside.”
Anne Lamott
“I’ve enjoyed every age I’ve been and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I’ve been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see. Nowadays, I don’t want a “perfect” face and body; I want to wear the life I’ve lived.”
Pat Benatar
“As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, and some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of formulation about how best to move through the world. An idea that will let us be. Protect us and keep us safe. But a weapon nonetheless.”
Colson Whitehead
“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
“Maybe it’s true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.”
Phyllis Diller
“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
“The thing about old friends is not that they love you, but that they know you. They remember that disastrous New Year’s Eve when you mixed White Russians and champagne and how you wore that red maternity dress until everyone was sick of seeing the blaze of it in the office and the uncomfortable couch in your first apartment and the smoky stove in your beach rental. They look at you and don’t really think you look older because they’ve grown old along with you and, like the faded paint in a beloved room, they’re used to the look.”
Anna Quindlen
“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
“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”
Coco Chanel
“Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip, that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you’re not careful and don’t embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence.”
Dawn French
“If you’re 50, you’re never going to be 50 ever again, so enjoy being 50. If you sit through the year wishing you were younger, before you know it, it’s going to be over, and you’re going to be 51.”
Julianne Moore
“Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”
Maya Angelou
Positive Quotes About Turning 50
“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.“
Muhammad Ali
“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.“
Victor Hugo
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.“
Elbert Hubbard
“Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.“
John C. Maxwell
“At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.“
George Orwell
Things to Rejoice About When You Turn 50
1. You Are Free.
Take a bow. Sometimes in this decade, your children probably graduated from high school, maybe even college. Maybe they have already moved away. And maybe they’re still at home. But even if they live with you under the same roof, things have changed.
They are adults now. Babysitter? Homework? Reading? That’s all in the past now and guess what? You have also successfully graduated and are now in a new period of your life.
2. You are Still Young.
Yes, that’s right. At 50, you are still young and you’re still the same person you’ve always been inside. Ok, maybe you have a little more mileage, but you probably still love all the things you loved before, the same songs, the same movies. Some things never change. That child is still inside you.
3. But Still – Time Goes On.
And that’s good because having a deadline keeps you focused. When I was young, I often put off things like exploring the world or going on a cross-country road trip. Time in front of me stretched endlessly like the Sahara desert.
Ten years have passed and the Sahara has shrunk to the size of my local beach and as I blinked, she shrunk to the size of a child’s sandbox. I realized that if I ever plan to see South America or learn how to make a chocolate souffle or write a novel, I need to get started now!
4. You Know Who You Are.
In my twenties, I was part of the corporate world and always felt inadequate. I was never good at politics, tables, or foosball. My eyes would water when my colleagues turned theirs over in anticipation. More than all that, I loved ideas, words, and feelings.
Only after several decades did I realize that it wasn’t all my fault. I just haven’t found my tribe. If you are young and still looking for yourself, don’t worry, because you will discover who you are. It will most likely take a lot of trial and error, but you will get there.
5. You are in a Very Good Period.
Do you remember when you became a parent and changed the third dirty diaper in just two hours and dreamed of lying on a beach somewhere instead? Or to go camping for a week? The good news: it’s now much easier to do.
The fifties are the best time for that. There are a lot of friends who are more adventurous now than when they were twenty. They finally have the time and the means, and trust me – they don’t intend to miss it.
6. You are Strong.
By now, you’ve probably been thrown around a bit. Or maybe a lot. Many times you had to get back in the saddle. And the best thing is that now you know that you can do it. By the age of fifty, you have passed many tests: emotional, personal, marital, educational, financial, health… all kinds. You have a lot of things to worry about. But now you know which things deserve your care and which don’t. You know what you should invest your energy in and what you shouldn’t.
7. You are Free to Follow Your Dreams.
Many people pick up a pencil, guitar, paintbrush, or yoga mat. Who knows why? Maybe they are less afraid now. Maybe at this age, people have more to express. Perhaps life, with all its joys and sorrows, deepens the soul.
People who were unscrupulous in the corporate world can later discover their softer side. In the fifties, for the first time, we have the time and space to explore our hidden qualities. And this can lead to discoveries that we were not aware of.
8. Throw a Party
50 years is a special date and it requires a non-standard approach to organizing the feast. This is his day, so all organizational matters must be approved through their approval.
If a grandiose banquet facility doesn’t resonate with the hero of the day, you’ll need to consider other options. Let it be less solemn, but calm and sincere, in the lap of family and closest people. Of course, fun and entertainment are not canceled!
Wrapping Up
One day looking back on your 50s, you might be thankful for having lived through such an inspiring and rewarding decade. Your fifties are the best teacher you can have.
Remember, half a century is behind you, and a lot of new things are ahead of you, including more birthdays and reasons to be happy about. Real life is coming and it doesn’t matter where it takes place. It is more important that you feel comfortable, cozy, and fun.
