Quotes About Longevity

Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.

God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.

I believe that life is shorter; that is why we have to make experience longer.

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

It's a lifestyle, it's something you do the rest of your life," LaLanne said. "How long are you going to keep breathing? How long do you keep eating? You just do it.

Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.

It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's charm.

My goal in life is to get as old as I possibly can, to have as much fun as I possibly can, and then die.

Laughter is the best medicine for a long and happy life. He who laughs lasts!

The big turn in the late 90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. I was fairly sure I was going to be an actor for the rest of my life, which I think calmed me down.

Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.

A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.

Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.

An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.

Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

Most people think that aging is genetic and yet if your parents lived to age 80+ that will add three years to your life.

From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

Yoga adds years to your life and life to your years.

I wish you all a long and happy life