Quotes About Longevity

There's not too many guys that spend their whole career with one team and I think it's very fortunate and a blessing for me

When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would make all of the big decisions and my wife would make all of the little decisions. For fifty years, we have held true to that agreement. I believe that is the reason for the success in our marriage. However, the strange thing is that in fifty years, there hasn't been one big decision.

Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.

We preserve them from diseases. We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium. We don't permit their magnesium-calcium ratio to fall below what it was at thirty. We give them transfusions of young blood. We keep their metabolism permanently stimulated.

Y así transcurría el tiempo, en aquellos días finales de un Siglo de las Luces que parecía haber durado más de trescientos años, por las tantas y tantas cosas que en él habían acontecido.

Simpson calculated that if an inpatient nurse sees an average of even just four patients during a twelve-hour shift, in twenty years she will care for more than 11,000 patients and families. A clinic nurse who sees ten patients per shift will care for nearly 43,000 patients.

I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.

Key to a happy and long life: "Find something you're passionate about and do it!

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. 'I reckon,' he asid, with a twinkle in his eye, 'It's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.'

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.

over the past fifty of your years, you've improved your health, longevity, literacy, quality of life, prosperity, and everything else. Dramatically. Yet almost all of you believe the opposite is true. Why? Because your news and social media is almost all negative. All alarming. All divisive. You've become more pessimistic, more tribal, than ever before. Your politicians ever more corrupt, manipulative, and self-serving.

the longer the life-span, the more stagnant and ossified a species would become. There was something to be said for experience, but youth brought fresh blood and bold new ideas. A dose of much-needed vitality.

We also spoke about longevity as a burden to younger generations," she continued. "It is. Along with economic collapse, population growth causes conditions to get more and more unsanitary. Contagious diseases spread like wildfire. Massive famines become common. Fighting for survival and fueled by increases in aberrant human behavior, countries war on their international neighbors and soon unleash a nuclear Armageddon on the planet.

There's no evolutionary advantage to long life.

That is actually a real kicker when it comes longevity, because it means even if we completely eliminated atherosclerosis from the population it would still only extend people's healthy lifespan and therefore people's total lifespan by three or four years.

Even if you agreed that longevity is a curse for a society, there are many things you might do before deciding to import the next generation from another continent.

A Chinese proverb goes: "We do not live for a hundred years but worry enough for a thousand" (Char, 1970, p. 15).

I love my daughter, but she had me on couscous and fixed me pastas and made me eat oatmeal every morning and what else, turkey burgers, turkey bacon, and that kind of stuff. So she wants her dad to live a long time, and I do, too.

I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly.

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.

A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.

How do you live a long life? "Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast."

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.