Henny Youngman Quotes

People die at 100 years old now. When I was a kid, people died at 67.

I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

When I was single I went out a lot. I don't go out all that often now.

Being single is not as bad as everyone likes to make it seem!

People use so much more health care when they live longer.

The average married man lives two thousand and five days longer than his single counterpart, albeit with less reason.

Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married.

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

In 1900, the average life expectancy of a US citizen was 48, so most menopausal women were dead, which is not a great place to be.

I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.

The reduction of the death rate is the principal statistical expression and index of human social progress.

The reality is that life expectancy has not improved for everyone. In fact, in some cases, life expectancy is actually decreasing.

We must recognize that there are healthy as well as unhealthy ways to be single or to be divorced, just as there are healthy and unhealthy ways to be married.

I was single for so long, for 42 years.

I've always been a singles guy.

A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

Life expectancy in America is about 79, we should be able to live to 92. Somewhere along the line, we're leaving 13 years on the table. So my quest is -- how do we get those extra 13 years? And how do we make those extra 13 years good years?

The world's oldest woman passed away at 116. They keep dying. I think that title may be cursed.

For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.