Methuselah Quotes:

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.264, Courier Corporation

topic: Girl, Time, Boys, Methuselah

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Methuselah

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Change, Time, Enough, Methuselah, Fleeting Time

You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: Back to Methuselah pt. 1, act 1 (1921). This was a favorite quotation of Robert F. Kennedy's, and Edward M. Kennedy used it in his eulogy of Robert Kennedy.

topic: Leadership, Dream, Famous Inspirational, Inspirational Dream, Methuselah

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Art, Methuselah

Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.

- Matthew Henry

topic: Men, Long, Delight, Methuselah

The young mouse's eyes snapped open, clear and bright. He swung the ancient sword high and struck at the giant adder. He struck for Redwall! He struck against evil! He struck for Martin! He struck for Log-a-Log and his shrews! He struck for dead Guosim! He struck as Methuselah would have wanted him to! He struck against Cluny the Scourge and tyranny! He struck out against Captain Snow's ridicule! He struck for the world of light and freedom! He struck until his paws ached and the sword fell from them!

- Brian Jacques

source: Brian Jacques (1990). “Redwall”

topic: Eye, Light, Snow, Shrews, Methuselah

It’s all right,” she said. “You’re through.” “Jesus,” he finally managed, pushing water off his face. “Jesus Christ and John the Baptist. For that matter, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John.” Still not enough. He needed to reach back to the Old Testament for this. “Obadiah. Nebuchadnezzar. Methuselah and Job.” “Be calm,” she said, taking him by the shoulders. “Be calm. And there are women in the Bible, you know.” “Yes. As I recall it, they were trouble, every last one.

- Tessa Dare

topic: Jesus, Jobs, Water, John The Baptist, Methuselah

Had I represented twenty thousand voters in Michigan, that political editor would not have known nor cared whether I was the oldest or the youngest daughter of Methuselah, or whether my bonnet came from the Ark or from Worth's.

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Daughter, Fashion, Editors, Methuselah, Woman Suffrage