Jeanne Calment Quotes

Every age has its happiness and troubles.

I'm interested in everthing but passionate about nothing.

Wit doesn't make girls pretty.

If you can’t do anything about it, don’t worry about it.

I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often.

I wait for death and journalists.

All babies are beautiful.

Always keep a smile. I attribute my long life to that. I believe I will die laughing. That's part of my program.

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

When I'm laid in my coffin, I want you to put a picture of my grandchild to the right of me and and a picture of my daughter to my left. That way they will be buried with me.

I think I will die laughing.

Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!

I had to wait 110 years to become famous. I wanted to enjoy it as long as possible.

I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine.

My sight is bad, my hearing is bad, I feel bad, but I don't suffer, I don't complain.

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

I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.

I'm not afraid of anything.

I only have one wrinkle and I'm sitting on it.

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.

I didn't like mundane life.

[On being the oldest living human being:] God must have forgotten me.

I'd like to go to the Moon.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

He who hugs too much, hugs badly!

I've been forgotten by our Good Lord.