Quotes About Longevity

The NBA is a beautiful job in a lot of ways. But for living stability, thinking you're going to be somewhere for a long time, it's not for that.

What we expect to find, certainly in our own solar system, are probably simple single or multiple-cell forms of life. To get to intelligent life takes stability of conditions over huge, long periods of time.

Many of my staff have been with me for over 20 years. I have a great team, and I make sure they feel respected and appreciated.

Someday, I'll be too old to run around the stage - though that won't hopefully happen for a long while yet.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

I know some people who are like, 'I love fitness,' and I feel like if you have to say that, you're still in the romance stage. I'm in the stage where I've been married to it for 60 years, and I don't think I'll ever get a divorce.

The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been like Martina Navratilova and my body had let me I would have carried on playing a lot longer.

Shows than run for years together make you stagnant.

Weight-gain brings with it a number of health issues, but at some point you just realise that you want to live longer, eat healthier. You don't want to be out of breath when you climb a flight of stairs.

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.

I started doing stand-up when I was 15 and doing Letterman when I was 20. So I've been doing stand-up comedy and clubs for over 30 years. That's a long time.

When your parents are madly in love for 45 years, your standards are really high.

I think I am the oldest member and have been in good standing longer than any other member of this church.

To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you.

From my standpoint, I feel like I'm at the start of my career, I'm only 23-years-old but I have been doing it for 10 years.

I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.

The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.

Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.

A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days, a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30, a man at 100, and some species of tortoises not until 150 years.

Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?

Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.