Jeanne Calment Quotes

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

— Jeanne Calment

“He who hugs too much, hugs badly!”

— Jeanne Calment

“I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it.”

— Jeanne Calment

“Every age has its happiness and troubles.”

— Jeanne Calment

“I think I will die laughing.”

— Jeanne Calment

“In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.”

— Jeanne Calment

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

— Jeanne Calment

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

— Jeanne Calment

“I'm interested in everthing but passionate about nothing.”

— Jeanne Calment

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

— Jeanne Calment

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

— Jeanne Calment

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

— Jeanne Calment

“I wait for death and journalists.”

— Jeanne Calment

All babies are beautiful.

— Jeanne Calment

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

— Jeanne Calment

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

— Jeanne Calment

“I'm not afraid of anything.”

— Jeanne Calment

“I'd like to go to the Moon.”

— Jeanne Calment

“I didn't like mundane life.”

— Jeanne Calment

I've been forgotten by our Good Lord.

— Jeanne Calment

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

— Jeanne Calment

Wit doesn't make girls pretty.

— Jeanne Calment

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

— Jeanne Calment

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

— Jeanne Calment

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

— Jeanne Calment

“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.”

— Jeanne Calment

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

— Jeanne Calment

“If you can't do anything about it, don't worry about it.”

— Jeanne Calment

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

— Jeanne Calment