Michael Feldman Quotes

It's not true that married men live longer than single men. It only seems longer.

What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.

Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.

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

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

I don't think too much about age. Maybe if you're hurting, aching and arthritic, then you think about it a lot. But I don't.

Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.

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

Stay single as long as you can - you'll be married the rest of your life.

Sometimes I think, 'I need to get married soon.' Other days I think, 'Why get married?'

I was single for so long, for 42 years.

It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.

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.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

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

They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.

As a single couple, we are no longer able to hang around with married couples 'cause they cannot be in our presence without getting very annoying. It's always like, 'So, when are you guys getting married? Huh? When are you getting married? When are you guys getting married?!' I dunno, you're married - when are you gonna die? You're already married, death will be next. When are you gonna die?

According to a new study, women in satisfying marriages are less likely to develop cardiovascular diseases than unmarried women. So don't worry, lonely women, you'll be dead soon.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.

It's OK, by the way, that it takes 10 years for you to make "money." Since when was it that being in your mid-30s to make a few hundred thousand dollars or a million dollars was like egregiously unfair? I think we have to have a sense of perspective here. We're all going to live into our 80s or 90s. So what is everybody in such a rush for?