Quotes about Longevity

I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.

We preserve them from diseases. We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium. We don't permit their magnesium-calcium ratio to fall below what it was at thirty. We give them transfusions of young blood. We keep their metabolism permanently stimulated.

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

Fitness has nothing to do with age.

Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

We recall that to the Cherokee, as to other people who have noticed how long it sometimes takes for humans to develop fully, adulthood comes--if it is coming at all--at the age of fifty-two.

There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.

If you'll learn to release control to God, you'll not only live happier, you'll live longer.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.