The secrets of long life

  • Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.~ Daniel Francois Esprit Auber
  • Don’t ask in this life for the three most difficult things: good sons, long life and a long beard.~ Chinese Proverb
  • Eat less, live longer.~ German Proverb
  • Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.~ Jonathan Swift
  • How do you live a long life? “Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.” ~ Harry S. Truman
  • If I’d known I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.~ Eubie Blake
  • If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer.  ~Clement Freud
  • If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.~ Hans Selye
  • If you wouldn’t live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.~ Benjamin Franklin
  • It’s not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.~ Roger Dawson
  • It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.~ Thomas Kempis
  • Live long and prosper.~ Benjamin Spock
  • Man fools himself. He prays for a long life, and he fears an old age.~ Chinese Proverb
  • May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.~ Robert A. Heinlein
  • My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.~  Thomas Jefferson
  • Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.~ Captain J. Brown
  • One moment of intense happiness prolongs life by a thousand years.~ Japanese Proverb
  • One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.~ Alexander A. Bogomoletz
  • Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.~ Douglas MacArthur
  • People who laugh actually live longer than those who don’t laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter.~ Dr. James Walsh
  • Repentance prolongs a man’s life.~ Hebrew Proverb
  • So wise so young, they say, do never live long.~ William Shakespeare
  • The longer the blind live, the more they see.~ Yiddish Proverb
  • The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.~ David Ogilvy
  • You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.~ Ruth E. Renkl
  • Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.~ Jonathan Swift
    Your dog wishes you a long life.~ Russian Proverb
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