#Longevity Quotes

“A light heart lives long.”

“O excellent! I love long life better than figs.”

“Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.”

“I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.”

“They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor”

“People who experience negative or stressful emotions on an ongoing basis are less healthy and live shorter lives.”

“If you want your business to survive for 100 years, you've got to make it through every single day for 100 years. It's not enough to do it 99.9% of the time.”

“I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.”

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

“Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.”

“It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half”

“That's what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel. They created a company to last, not just to make money. That's what I want Apple to be.”

“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”

“A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.”

“Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.”

“Laugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life.”

“In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away”

“I'd like to live to a hundred.”

“I want to play for years.”

“I've had tendinitis since college.”

“Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.”

“To live long it is necessary to live slowly.”

“To live long, live slowly.”

“The one who does not stray away from her/his nature will live long.”

“Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.”

“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.[Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]”

“I am not immortal, but I've got a lot left in me yet.”

“There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.”

“Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.”

“I don't want to be something that just comes and goes.”

“Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently.”

“It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.”

“When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.”

“people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them”

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

“The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet.”

“May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!”

“The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.”

“May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.”

“You cannot judge the value of a life by its quantity. It is by the joy that you are feeling. The more joyful you are, the longer you live. Let yourself relax and breathe and be free and be joyous, and romp.”

“He who laughs.....lasts.”

“I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.”

“I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100.”

“I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens.”

“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”

“You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.”

“My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn't take very good care of himself.”

“It would be great to be 105 and still making films.”

“If anybody asks me what I attribute the longevity of my career to, then I say it's because I was never satisfied with being a cowboy in the plains of Spain and later I was never satisfied with just playing a detective in San Francisco, and constantly just pushing the envelope.”

“I just feel that I enjoy the work more than I ever have... or just as much certainly... I enjoy making films behind the camera equally to making them in front of the camera on all those years. I just enjoy it, that's all. I've been lucky enough to work in a profession that I have really liked and so I figured I'd just continue until someone hits me over the head and says "get out".”