Quotes About Longevity

I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips

It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.

Forty-eight years is almost enough time to hold a record.

Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.

You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.

At least a circus performance does not last long, and the regime availing itself of the services of clownish journalists has the longevity of a mouldering mushroom.

As he leans over to kiss me good night, I do not regret having graduated from the amorous sprints of our youths. Marriage is a long-distance course, and reading aloud is a kind of romantic Gatorade formulated to invigorate the occasionally exhausted racers.

I am positive of only a few things in life, and one is that if you want to have a decent middle and old age, you have to get exercise almost every day.

you do get wiser when you live for hundreds of years; but you also have more time to turn out as badly as your enemies always said you might.

To feed upon the innocent is sublime, but leads inevitably to such a love of human life that the vampire who does it cannot endure for very long.

life by its mere appalling length is a feat of endurance for which you haven't the strength.

Crowds and Tribes Two different things: A crowd is a tribe without a leader. A crowd is a tribe without communication. Most organizations spend their time marketing to the crowd. Smart organizations assemble the tribe. Crowds are interesting, and they can create all sorts of worthwhile artifacts and market effects. But tribes are longer lasting and more effective.

Jay Levinson famously said, "Don't change your ads when you're tired of them. Don't change them when your employees are tired of them. Don't even change them when your friends are tired of them. Change them when your accountant is tired of them.

Why would you take a drug that is guaranteed to kill you in forty years? One reason, right? It's the only thing that will stop you dying tomorrow.

May you get exactly what you want and live long enough to regret it.

Come home with me, Acheron. I'll make it well worth your while. (Artemis) I have a headache. (Acheron) You've had a headache for two hundred years! (Artemis) And you've had PMS for eleven thousand. (Acheron)

We come from a long line of people who live to read boring texts – I think it may be why we all die young. Complete boredom. (Geary)

No matter how you disguise this trite bullshit, it's my life, Jeff. Penned in an awkward manner. It's things I didn't want to see in black-and-white print. You're lucky after three hundred years that I've mellowed. In my human days, I'd have slit your throat, pulled your tongue through the opening, and left you tied to a tree for the wolves to eat. (Rafael)

I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life.

In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.

I like the consistency of having people in my life for a long time.

I remember that Charles Schulz, at the end of his life, had eyes full of tears for Charlie Brown. I thought about the reason for all his emotion: he had lived for 50 years with them.

My parents lived very long lives. And good lives, too. They're great people, but good lives.

I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.