Top 25 Quotes About Methuselah
#1. We read that Adam and Methuselah lived so many centuries; at that time, it was the custom to marry in the family - marry as closely as possible - so that the tie of blood might be as strong as it could be made.
Max Heindel
#2. Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.
Matthew Henry
#3. By God, master," said Sancho, "the island that I cannot govern with the years I have, I'll not be able to govern with the years of Methuselah; the difficulty is that the said island keeps its distance somewhere, I know not where; and not that there is any want of head in me to govern it.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#4. Had I represented twenty thousand voters in Michigan, that political editor would not have known nor cared whether I was the oldest or the youngest daughter of Methuselah, or whether my bonnet came from the Ark or from Worth's.
Susan B. Anthony
#5. 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
#6. He died alone,' said Pious Dundas, old as Methuselah, unblinking. 'It don't matter a rat's ass whether there was anyone with him or not. He died alone.
Neil Gaiman
#7. It does not pay a man to exist until the age of Methuselah by making his days indolent and useless. The more this is reflected upon, them ore the reflector will desire to undertake meaningful and useful actions, the more they will have lived.
Frederick The Great
#8. Often? That's a relative concept when you're in here." He licked his lips. They were chapped, startlingly red against the snow white of his Methuselah beard.
Joseph Finder
#9. I have several children - seven, to be exact - too many children for an atheist, certainly. Whenever my children complain about the planet to me, I say, Shut up! I just got here myself. Who do you think I am - Methuselah? You think I like the news of the day any better than you do? You're wrong.
Kurt Vonnegut
#10. People who excuse their faults and claim they didn't deserved to be punished - there are lots of them. But those who don't excuse their faults and admit they didn't deserve to be spared - they are few.
Zhuangzi
#12. I was beginning to think that in life there might be some suffering that was worth enduring.
Ingrid Betancourt
#14. It was actually, 'Where ever there is television, there is poor old shagged out Tom Baker running across the rocks and punting down the river.'
Tom Baker
#15. Real computers scared me; if you can find Them, then They can find you ...
Jennifer Egan
#16. But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.
Hortense Calisher
#17. It's important not to lose who you are in a relationship just because it's nice to cuddle with somebody.
Scarlett Johansson
#18. I could care less if it's Mick Jagger or the man on the street. I just like interesting people, and I happen to know a lot of stars.
Nicholas Haslam
#20. Dammit woman, stop trying to beat me. I'll sue you for domestic violence.
Karen Mahoney
#21. Look at all the resources around you before you make a decision. Look for ways to make your environment work for you. The solution to your most impossible problem might be right there in front of you. As obvious as a full Moon is on a dark night.
C.D. Sutherland
#22. You've been smoking again, haven't you? Your eyes look like road maps and you're in full bastard mode.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#24. God's only concern is what you do with the life you've been given.
Susan May Warren
#25. Stealing has always been a way of redistributing wealth.
John Conyers