Top 100 Quotes About Long Life
#1. It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
Margaret Oliphant
#2. The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.
Hippocrates
#3. It's meaningless to live a long life if you think only about yourself, and give no thought to caring about others.
Thomas A Kempis
#4. A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
Walter Lippmann
#5. They're real strong magic, they make you have good luck. Not like fried chicken when you're not lookin' for it, but things like long life n' good health, n' passin' six weeks tests ... these are real valuable to somebody.
Harper Lee
#6. Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.
Holly Black
#7. Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,
an illness given by the hand of man!
Victor Hugo
#9. All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards long life, honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth, victory over opponents, immortality after death, any desired rewards.
Octavia Butler
#10. One thing I've learned in a very long life, Mr. Crews, is that there's never enough.
Robert Ferrigno
#11. I decided that it's either, you know, if I want to have children, have a family and - and live a long life, I've got to make some real, real serious changes.
Carnie Wilson
#12. Those words you want to say right now? Don't say them.' He smiled and cuffed my cheek with something close to real affection. 'And that, my friend, is the secret to living a long life'.
David Benioff
#13. A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin.
Steven J. Carroll
#14. The only way to live a long life is in a state of constant boredom.
Gerd De Ley
#15. Man is a rational animal. So at least we have been told. Throughout a long life I have searched diligently for evidence in favor of this statement. So far, I have not had the good fortune to come across it.
Bertrand Russell
#16. Well, maybe it's true,' Clevinger conceded unwillingly in a subdued tone. 'Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?'
'I do,' Dunbar told him.
'Why?' Clevinger asked.
'What else is there?
Joseph Heller
#17. The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
George Santayana
#18. I think that to have known one good, old man-one man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart in his hand, like a palm-branch, waving all discords into peace-helps our faith in God, in ourselves, and in each other more than many sermons
George William Curtis
#20. I've lost a lot in my long life. Yes, I've seen pain and I've seen strife. But I'll never give up; I'll never let go. Because I'll always have my ray of hope.
Colleen Hoover
#21. I'm healthy as can be - not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.
Joel Osteen
#22. What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?
Sigmund Freud
#23. To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin
That makes calamity of so long life;
Mark Twain
#24. He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Isaac Asimov
#25. The point of the silo was for the people to keep the machines running, when Jahns had always, her entire long life, seen it the other way around.
Hugh Howey
#26. The Treorchy Male Choir's version of "Myfanwy" is one of the most glorious things I've ever heard in all my long life. Love and congratulations to you all.
Joanna Lumley
#27. A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers are for health, long life, wealth, and for the damsels and slaves of the Paradise. Ponder! Did you ever pray to God, 'O' God, I desire from Thee nothing but Thee'?
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
#28. We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.
Charlie Munger
#29. To successfully lose weight after 40, you need to understand that imbalanced hormones and chemicals have a huge impact on your health. It is possible, however, to live a clean, healthy, and long life - with a slim body, even after 40!
Suzanne Somers
#30. It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.
Jodi Picoult
#31. 15 When he b calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and c honor him. 16 With d long life I will satisfy him and e show him my salvation.
Anonymous
#32. Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
Michel De Montaigne
#33. I repose in this quiet and secluded spot not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race by charter rules, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life: EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR.
Thaddeus Stevens
#34. I want a long life, measured not in days and years but the moments that we spent together
Sapan Saxena
#35. My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.
Henry Louis Gates
#36. One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike
and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
Albert Einstein
#37. Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.
Aesop
#38. You might get nothing out of it at all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous curiosity. And that should be enough too.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#40. Those of us who receive the blessing of a long life will also need to understand and manage grief and loss many times throughout our lives. Grief will come again, and again. Loss is a requisite part of the aging process and the human experience.
Brent Green
#41. Just remember, it's a small business and a long life. You're going to see all these people again.
Steve Ross
#42. The secret of health, happiness, and long life: If you simply learn how to accept and express love, you will live longer ... be happier ... grow healthier. For love is a powerful force.
Alfred Armand Montapert
#43. I am but a miserable sinner, but I have found, in my long life, that the cenobite has no foe worse than sadness.
Anatole France
#44. I don't know in my long life that I ever worked with anybody that has quite the combination of policy knowledge and concern, political skills, of a personal touch with people, and a sense of innate fairness that inspires confidence.
William J. Clinton
#45. Everyone should pursue whatever is original in oneself. That's the way for a long life in music.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#46. If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.
Pearl S. Buck
#47. He thought about his long life and gave thanks for all the bounty and joy that he had been given. To want more, to wish for yet more, he knew, would be petty. He sighed happily, and listened to the wind sweeping down from the mountains, to the chirping of night birds.
Khaled Hosseini
#48. Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.
Harold Lewis
#49. 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
#50. I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters.
Dino De Laurentiis
#51. You really can't say enough about 'Blade Runner.' For that movie to have such a long life - you can't describe what a beautiful feeling that is. Initially, the movie was out of theaters in something like two weeks. But the people that wanted it back - the fans - they really saved it.
Rutger Hauer
#52. I don't feel I'll live a long life. That's why I have to get what I can from every day.
Elvis Presley
#53. I knew he would never leave me, never let me down-because the man had never abandoned anything in his long life. If I hadn't taken the gold rope of our bond, I knew Adam would have sat on me and hog-tied me with it. I liked that. A lot.
Patricia Briggs
#54. Don't wait too long. Life takes unexpected turns, and we don't always have the time we think we have.
Sylvain Reynard
#55. A long life or a short life are of equal importance to God.
Jack Black
#56. This has been the great lesson of my long life: To love is to destroy.
Jessica Khoury
#57. The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#58. Money gives you options,
Hard work gives you success,
Healthy relationships give you a long life,
But faith gives you everything!
Farshad Asl
#59. I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.
Laura Leighton
#60. I have learned that in a long life we all eventually play the part of the betrayed, and we all eventually play the part of the betrayer, and neither is pleasant because both roles involve pain, inflicting or absorbing it.
Robert Wagner
#61. It's a long life to spend doing something you're only meh about.
Nicola Yoon
#62. After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong.
Harold Macmillan
#63. Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream - For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life
William Shakespeare
#64. You can die for your country or your people or your family, but for a god you should live fully and busily, every day of a long life.
Terry Pratchett
#65. Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.
Jeanne Calment
#66. He found his cigar smoldering in an ashtray on the liquor cabinet and he fired it up again. The aroma gave him a sense of robust health. He smelled well-being, long life, even placid fatherhood, somewhere, in the burning leaf.
Don DeLillo
#67. I wanted her to have the full, long life that every parent promises his or her child by the simple act of bringing that child into the world.
Cristina Henriquez
#68. I'm sixteen with what I hope will be a long life ahead, but I'm willing to give it up, to give anything to let her live, to let her make it through the night.
Travis Thrasher
#69. Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?
Joseph Heller
#70. Once you have sold a customer, make sure he is satisfied with your goods. Stay with him until the goods are used up or worn out. Your product may be of such long life that you will never sell him again, but he will sell you and your product to his friends.
William Feather
#71. We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.
Seneca The Younger
#72. I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
Indira Gandhi
#73. I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.
Townes Van Zandt
#74. I was just thinking that long life brings strange companions.
Stephen King
#75. This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion.
Swami Vivekananda
#76. Opulence and fame will shorten your life, ask for long life, and you'll enjoy the former in small quantities, for it is a substitute.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#78. It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.
Cleveland Abbe
#79. There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
Yoko Ono
#80. Tips for a long life - Keep Sweet, Keep Friendly, Keep Loving, if ye would ... keep Y O U N G
Edgar Cayce
#81. A lot of irrational behavior would look more rational if you could see it in the context of your whole long life.
Ann Brashares
#82. an old man with a cane may discover that his many years have added nothing to his innocence but proof and explanation, and that, as much as he may have learned in his long life, he cannot see as far as he could see when he was seven
Mark Helprin
#83. Blessed are those with long life who understand others ...
Adil Adam Memon
#84. A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.
Chanakya
#85. The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
David Ogilvy
#86. Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.
Jeanne Calment
#87. The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go.
Michelle Shocked
#88. The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.
Henry L. Stimson
#90. I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish - well, I take that back - there are a couple I could have done without.
Holland Taylor
#91. Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death? Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic? If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness.
Laozi
#92. I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.
Ethan Suplee
#93. Jonahtan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short,and with these gone from his thought,he lived a long life indeed.
Richard Bach
#95. I give you life in the memory of one who no longer lives. May you have a long life, and may you thank Matthew every day for it.
Moises Kaufman
#96. Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and of contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly, your intergenerational family.
Stephen Covey
#97. How do you live a long life? "Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast."
Harry S. Truman
#98. If you live a long life and get to the end of it without ever once having felt crushingly depressed, then you probably haven't been paying attention.
Duncan MacMillan
#100. One may do many things in a long life. I also played a great deal of tennis and brought up three children. There's time for all sorts of adventures.
Audrey Niffenegger
