Quotes About Longevity

When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible."

The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th.

The secret to a long marriage in the film industry? Marry someone wonderful, as I did. And always have her come along on location.

If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?

A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.

I've been married fifty-five years and I've been home three weeks.

To live long, live slowly.

Every time I see some piece of medical research saying that caffeine is good for you, I high-five myself. Because I'm going to live forever.

Medicine is the study of disease and what causes man to die. Chiropractic is the study of health and what causes man to live.

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.

It's not true that married men live longer than single men. It only seems longer.

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half

A man is as old as his arteries.

A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.

Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends … if you [have] five, you're a rich man….

Clearly Mr. Drkh has had a long career of being the weirdest person in any given room, but he's about to go down in flames.

The Bourbon-Orléans family tree is infinitely larger, more ramified, and more intertangled than can possibly be shown here, largely owing to the longevity, fertility, and polygamy of Louis XIV.

But that was one of those errands that, if not achieved in the first twelve hours, would remain undone centuries later.

When the climate had been warmer, civilizations had sloshed back and forth across this glacier-planed landscape for a couple of thousand years like silt in a miner's pan, forming drifts of built-up stuff that stayed long after the people had departed. At any given moment during those millennia, a billion might have lived on this territory that now supported a few tens of thousands.

The goal was to find products that would keep on making money forever, long after the talent had been paid off and sent packing.

Intelligence and longevity do not seem to be correlated.

Evidence shows that nature doesn't actually care about our health or longevity. We're equipped by natural instincts to sift between some of what might harm us and some of what may bring us comfort. Yet there is no hint from space that anyone or anything in the universe will arrive to save us from Earth, or from ourselves. It is we alone who care about us.