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Quotes About Longevity

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas'.
~ Unknown
Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible and live long lives.
~ Maya Angelou
If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.
~ Winnie the Pooh
I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.
~ Henry Youngman
Tell Me you love me. Tell me I'm beautiful. Tell me we'll grow old together.. In sickness, and in health. Tell me that I'm still the one. That you need me. That I'm your superhero. Tell me you'll never let me go. Tell me you miss me. ... That's all I need.
~ Unknown
Suppose you have a village of 100 people. If half of them die at age five, perhaps from such childhood ailments, twenty die at age sixty, and the remaining thirty die at seventy-five, the average life span in the society is thirty-seven, but not a single person actually reached the age of thirty hale and hearty and then suddenly began to senesce.
~ Unknown
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.
~ Martha Beck
Honor your father and mother" (this is the first commandment with a promise), "that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land." (Eph. 6:2-3)
~ Unknown
I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.
~ Martha Stewart
In my feed, ART turned down the soundtrack to say, Young humans can be impulsive. The trick is keeping them around long enough to become old humans.
~ Martha Wells
Young humans can be impulsive. The trick is keeping them around long enough to become old humans. This is what my crew tells me and my own observations seem to confirm it.
~ Martha Wells
When I hear about some sensational new writer I sort of think, Shut up ... you've got to be around for a long time before you can really say you're a writer. You've got to stand the test of time, which is the only real test there is.
~ Martin Amis
Longevity is highly over rated.
~ Unknown
Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now; I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, I've. Seen the promised Land.... So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried a out anything, I'm not fearing any man
~ Martin Luther
When we try to understand something, more often than not, we kill it, and now I can feel the dangers of this encroaching on me: cynicism, bitterness, and infinite sadness...It's impossible to live if you're too aware, too thoughtful. Take nature for example: everything that lives happily and too a ripe old age is not very intelligent. Tortoises live for centuries, water's immortal, and Milton Friedman's still alive.
~ Unknown
Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
~ Edna St Vincent Millay
You say to me - wards your affection's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long
~ Robert Herrick
Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest
~ Henry Van Dyke
Love me little, love me long
~ Proverb
Those that have loved longest love best.
~ Samuel Johnson
One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic actors, we became those two people. So we had a divertissement: I had an affair with him, and he with me.
~ Lynn Fontanne
Love lasteth long as the money endureth
~ William Caxton
I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.
~ Johnny Carson
He who laughs, lasts!
~ Mary Pettibone Poole