Quotes About Longevity

You're much better than fireworks. They're all over in a moment, and you're going to stay for a fortnight. Besides, fireworks are noisy, and they make too much smoke.

Also, I was not in the business of capturing anyone into a marriage. I just did not want to marry anyone. I liked the idea of being my own self. Even when I was living with Spencer Tracy and he and I were together for twenty-seven years, we never really thought about or discussed marriage. He was married and I wasn't interested.

There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough.

You have spent 94 years in the hall of abstinence.

May it live and last for more than one century.

An eternal life shared with another grows less attractive if the other is off his nut.

the race is long—to finish first, first you must finish.

The race is long. To finish first, you must first finish.

Staranje je klavrna stvar. Zaznamovano z omejitvami in kr?enjem. Vem, da doleti vse; vendar mislim, da bi lahko bilo tudi druga?e...V naši trenutni miselnosti, v kolektivnem dolg?asu, smo se pa? odlo?ili, da bo tako. Toda nekega dne se bo rodil mutant, ki bo zavrnil staranje, ki ne bo hotel sprejeti omejitev telesa, ki bo zdrav, dokler ne bo opravil z življenjem, namesto, da bi mu telo odpovedalo oporo.

In order for an aging person to remain healthy and creative, the body and mind must continue to be active. You

When we live for ourselves, we become boring. Most of us are simply not interesting enough on our own to captivate someone else for five or six decades.

I think most of us who have been married for any substantial length of time realize that the romantic roller coaster of courtship eventually evens out to the terrain of a Midwest interstate - long, flat stretches with an occasional overpass.

Then Methuselah embraced Havah. She whispered to him, "Methuselah, you shall outlive us all." That struck him as a bit odd, out of place. Maybe she had lost some of her wits in her old age.

Abrir el corazón] tiene muchísima relación no sólo con la calidad de vida sino también con su cantidad, es decir, con su duración. [...] La soledad y el aislamiento aumentan el riesgo de enfermedad y de muerte prematura por cualquier motivo, entre un doscientos y un quinientos por ciento. [...] Cuando

For years all the people in his life had been people he'd known for a long time;

27Living in the worship and awe of God will bring you many years of contented living. So how could the wicked ever expect to have a long, happy life?

With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same sense it's also very exciting.

You can tell how long a couple has been married by whether they are on their first, second or third bottle of Tabasco.

If this sounds overly altruistic, I'd like to confess that to me, this kindness first strategy is one of the most selfish plans I've ever hatched. By reaching out to other people every single day, I am strengthening my social network—and, in effect, taking out an insurance policy on my health and longevity.

I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.

The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'll feel better, because they know that everything is, just as it is. There's nothing to get excited about. They just know. They're saviors. The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It's truly ridiculous.

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off." —J. Conrad

He had known Wind for much of his life; like many male English friendships it was based on faint disdain mixed with longevity.