fifty-two QUOTES

1 " By contrast, my wife at fifty-two yeas old seems to me just as attractive as the day I first met her. If I were to say this out loud, she would say, 'Douglas, that's just a line. No one prefers wrinkles, no one prefers grey.' To which I'd reply, 'But none of this is a surprise. I've been expecting to watch you grow older ever since we met. Why should it trouble me? It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or fourty-three. It's that face.'
Perhaps she would have liked to hear this but I had never got around to saying it out loud. I had always presumed there would be time and now, sitting on the edge of the bed at four a.m., no longer listening out for burglars, it seemed that it might be too late. "

― David Nicholls , Us

2 " Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen sourly yours the blame: all the meanness your youth concealed have been gathering in your face. But the pretty thoughts and sweet ways and dear, forgotten kindnesses linger there also, to bloom in your twilight like evening primroses. "

― J.M. Barrie

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

4 " I'm a most lucky and thankful woman. Lucky and thankful for each morning I wake up. For three wonderful daughters and one son. For an understanding and very loving husband with whom I've shared fifty-two blessed years all in good health. "

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

6 " The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love. "

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