Long Life Quotes

The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.

The only way to live a long life is in a state of constant boredom.

Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue!

Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.

The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it.

The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.

He did not need a long life for us to measure. It was, rather, we who needed his life to be longer.

[Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.

So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!

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.

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?

Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery.

A long life is a life well spent.

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.

Laugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life.

Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

Life is a highway. I want to ride it all night long

But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.

We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.

Long week. Long month. Long life.

Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased.

The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go.

I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both change and accountability are impossible.

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

Depression catches everyone who lives long enough to be caught.

Live a good long life. Grow old and die after I do. And if you can, die laughing.

I say, without characters, fame lives long.

I've fallen in love maybe five times in my life. But it's a long life. I do get crushes. Whether it's men or women or babies.

In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.

Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here.

Long live the new flesh.

... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.

So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair othe human race.

Art is too long, and life is too short.

Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

I think what distresses me most in my life is that I have so many ideas I consider exciting ideas that I will never live to execute because it takes me so long to execute.

When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with.

You can only whine for so long. Then you need to get your life back.

Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood

Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.

Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.

Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.