Quotes about Longevity
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.
- George Bernard Shaw
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
- Marcus Aurelius
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
- Cicero
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
- Mark Twain
I want to be like Tom Cruise from 'The Outsiders' and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.
- Ashton Kutcher
The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.
- George Bernard Shaw
One of the advantages of having lived a long time is that you can often remember when you had it worse. I am grateful to have lived long enough to have known some of the blessings of adversity.
- James Faust
Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
- John Updike
Even for the diseases we don't focus on, cancer, heart disease, you're going to be way better off being sick 10 years from now than any time in the past.
- Bill Gates
I do think there is a value in the services of judges for long periods of time.
- Sonia Sotomayor
Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In Britain, people don't seem too worried about a possible end twenty billion years in the future. You can do quite a lot of eating, drinking and being merry before that.
- Stephen Hawking