Quotes About Longevity

Charlie had always told Lenore things that she would never admit to anyone else. Lenore had known Rusty for over fifty years. She was a black hole into which all of the Quinn family secrets disappeared.

They had been arguing about something that had seemed desperately important to Claire at the time but now she couldn't remember the topic or even when the argument had occurred. Last week? Last month? She had known Paul for eighteen years, been married to him for almost as long. There wasn't much left that they could argue about with any conviction.

It would take one million men, one hundred years

I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.

The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.

Married men live longer. Yes. And an indoor cat also lives longer. It's a furball with a broken spirit, that can only look out on a world it can never enjoy. But it does technically live longer.

To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.

The more a man follows nature, and is obedient to her laws, the longer he will live; the farther he deviates from these, the shorter will be his existence.

We still talk about [school band]. Almost 40 years later. It's like people are talking about, "Man we need to have a morning band reunion".

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.

Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.

This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.

If you go all the way back to the days just following creation, men lived nine hundred years or more.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.

Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.