#long life

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life. ↗

— Jeanne Calment

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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

#chance #day #end #every #every day

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

#air #between #convinced #head #journalism

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#between #come #difference #dinner #good

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

#distrust #him #i #i have learned #learned

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped. ↗

— Christiaan Barnard

#does #goal #life #long life #only

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

#cinema #continents #cultures #diverse #greatest

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

#contemplation #had #his #known #life