Jay Cooke Quotes

Just because you live longer doesn't necessarily give you a greater edge in quality.

Progress of preventive medicine as a preservative, made more effective by the progress of reason and social order, will eventually banish communicable or contagious illnesses and those diseases in general that originate in climate, food, and the nature of work…a time will come when death would result only from extraordinary accidents or the more and more gradual wearing out of vitality….Cannot the span constantly increase between the moment he begins to live and the time when naturally, without illness or accident, he finds life a burden?

No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today.

So aging is really just the way we deteriorate over time. Lifespan on the other hand is how long we live. We typically refer to that as longevity.

I don't think women outlive men, Doctor. It only seems longer.

There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points "born" and "died" farther away from one another. The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.

I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

In fact, scientists have shown that the better your DNA, your genetic machinery is at healing itself, the longer you live. That's how meditation lowers biological age.

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

Evolution happens. There's no football team in the world that has stayed together for time ever more.

His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.

I've never really understood the desire to be immortal myself. The idea of both wanting to live forever in some form and wanting to stay young forever just sounds exhausting. It's one of those desires that people think they want but when you actually stop to think about what it actually means, it's really awful. One of the reasons that life is bearable is because it's going to end soon. One of the main concerns of fiction is how do we make a life of 85 years or so meaningful.

people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them

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.

People talk philosophically, Oh, I don't want to live past 100.' You know, I'd like to hear them say that when they're 99.

I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.

Life is long if you know how to use it.

Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.

Life is the longest death in California.

Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.

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.

Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.

Those people who occupy a territory determine the nature of the society in that region.

A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.