Quotes about Longevity

If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.

We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.

Genius lasts longer than beauty

I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.

Business men who do not know how to fight worry die young.

Grass that is here today and gone tomorrow does not require much time to mature. A giant oak tree that lasts for generations requires much more time to grow strong.

Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages.Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build on the shifting sands.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope.

I did 'My Fair Lady' for almost 3 1/2 years, eight performances a week. It was a marathon.

The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

Marry the man who's going to walk with you through the next fifty or sixty years. Open doors, hold your hand, make your coffee, rub lotion on the cracks of your feet, put you up on a pedestal where you belong. Is he marrying your face and your bottle-blond hair, or will he love you when you look like whoever you're going to look like in fifty years?