Jeff Ross Quotes

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.

He who has good health is young.

I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.

Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.

Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me when I've got nothing but my aching soul?

One of the things that got me on this topic for this book was that when I was researching the column I wrote in 2009 saying that I was stepping down from my column at "Newsweek" because I wanted to make room for newer, fresh voices out there, I discovered that in the year I was born, 1952, the average life expectancy of an American was 68. I was shocked by that figure and every time I mention it I hear a gasp from somebody in the crowd. Now, of course, we're more or less at 80, so that means that we've gotten 12 additional years.

I keep healthy and I'm always very active and always have been so. I don't really see any signs of aging yet. Music keeps you young.

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

Keep the Pineal Gland operating and you will Never grow Old, You will always be Young.

Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe.

Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.

I don't see any elderly people in the crowd. Are there any old Dauntless? Do they not last that long, or are they just sent away when they can't jump off moving trains anymore?

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

Most people think that aging is fatal and scientific data shows that that's not true.

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

I have no idea how I do anything. I never have. You know I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call "Don McLean" when I was probably in high school. And I have been doing this for 40 years, adding songs and writing things, cobbling together albums, doing live things, you know, albums and tours. And then I have records on the charts. I have no idea how this happened.

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

Atheists have an excellent longevity record because we have no place to go after we die, so we take good care of ourselves and our world while we are here.

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

Life is the longest death in California.

In the end mortals always expired before faeries. They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and breath were but a blink from death. To add the weight of nourishing his insatiable court in a time of peace was to hasten that unconscionably.

I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed.