Best Long Life Proverbs
321 Long Life quotes by 274 unique authors
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It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.
— Andy Rooney
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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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;…
— Henry L. Stimson
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I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is…
— Albert Einstein
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NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life;
— Mark Twain
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Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Then Nuvoletta reflected for the last time in her little long life and she made up all her myriads of drifting minds in one. She…
— James Joyce
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To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp…
— W. S. Gilbert
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This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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a sensation is always the same as a piece of news, and a piece of news never lives long.
— Jostein Gaarder
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Red hair is my life long sorrow.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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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…
— Harper Lee
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Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance
— Elizabeth Goudge
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with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.
— Aldo Leopold
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[S]omething inside us, the feeling of resentment, the feeling that wants to get one's own back, must be simply killed. I do not mean that…
— C.S. Lewis
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...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer…
— Aristotle
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Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a…
— Nancy Mitford
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A light heart lives long.
— William Shakespeare
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It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.
— Jodi Picoult
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In my life long study of human beings, I have found that no matter how hard they try, they have found no way yet to…
— Jeff Lindsay
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The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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