Longevity quotes

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◆ The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

- Yutang Lin100

◆ Wish they could take my longevity and bottle it.

- LL Cool J99

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

- Garson Kanin99

◆ Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

- Helen Hayes99

◆ LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

- Ambrose Bierce99

◆ A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor

- Charles Reade99

◆ (On what her longevity is attributed to) Red meat and gin.

- Julia Child99

◆ Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.

- George Thorogood99

◆ My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.

- Lenny Kravitz99

◆ Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men.

- Gro Harlem Brundtland99

◆ One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

- Leon Kass99

◆ I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

- Orlando Bloom99

◆ I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.

- Joan Blondell99

◆ If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

- Sun Tzu99

◆ A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor.

- Charles Reade99