Calment Quotes

#1. MY INSPIRATION has always been Jeanne Calment, a Frenchwoman who smoked and drank every day and died a few years ago at the age of 122. When asked the secret of her longevity, she replied: 'I laugh a lot.' Well you would, wouldn't you.

Victoria Coren Mitchell

#2. I'm not afraid of anything.

Jeanne Calment

#3. All babies are beautiful.

Jeanne Calment

#4. I'm interested in everthing but passionate about nothing.

Jeanne Calment

#5. Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.

Jeanne Calment

#6. I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often.

Jeanne Calment

#7. I didn't like mundane life.

Jeanne Calment

#8. There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

Jeanne Calment

#9. Wit doesn't make girls pretty.

Jeanne Calment

#10. Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

Jeanne Calment

#11. I had to wait 110 years to become famous. I wanted to enjoy it as long as possible.

Jeanne Calment

#12. I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it.

Jeanne Calment

#13. Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

Jeanne Calment

#14. [On being the oldest living human being:] God must have forgotten me.

Jeanne Calment

#15. Always keep a smile. I attribute my long life to that. I believe I will die laughing. That's part of my program.

Jeanne Calment

#16. In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.

Jeanne Calment

#17. If you can't do anything about it, don't worry about it.

Jeanne Calment

#18. I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine.

Jeanne Calment

#19. I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.

Jeanne Calment

#20. Every age has its happiness and troubles.

Jeanne Calment

#21. I only have one wrinkle and I'm sitting on it.

Jeanne Calment

#22. My sight is bad, my hearing is bad, I feel bad, but I don't suffer, I don't complain.

Jeanne Calment

#23. Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!

Jeanne Calment

#24. I wait for death and journalists.

Jeanne Calment

#25. I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.

Jeanne Calment

#26. When I'm laid in my coffin, I want you to put a picture of my grandchild to the right of me and and a picture of my daughter to my left. That way they will be buried with me.

Jeanne Calment

#27. He who hugs too much, hugs badly!

Jeanne Calment

#28. I've been forgotten by our Good Lord.

Jeanne Calment

#29. I'd like to go to the Moon.

Jeanne Calment

#30. I think I will die laughing.

Jeanne Calment