I was trying to find out the attribution to this quote:

"I could not smoke or drink and live to be a hundred, but it would
seem like a thousand."

This may not be the exact quote, but is close to the original meaning.

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 13 Sep 2006 16:10 PDT

How about this quote, attributed to Woody Allen:

"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make
you want to live to be a hundred."

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Woody_Allen

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Clarification of Question by quoter234-ga on 13 Sep 2006 16:18 PDT

That is not the quote that I was looking for.  I thought the one I was
looking for was Mark Twain, but couldn't find a reference for it.

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 13 Sep 2006 16:25 PDT

There's an old joke with a similar sentiment:

DOCTOR: You've got to stop drinking, smoking, and chasing women.

PATIENT: If I do that, will I live to be 100? 

DOCTOR:  Naw, but it'll sure feel like it.

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Clarification of Question by quoter234-ga on 13 Sep 2006 16:34 PDT

Not quite the quote I was trying to find.

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 13 Sep 2006 17:22 PDT

This site attributes it to Sir Winston:


http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=69326624
"I could quit drinking, I could quit smoking, I could quit womanizing
and live to be 100 years old but then it would seem like 200. "
- Sir Winston Churchill


But who knows...!  Somehow, I can't quite hear Churchill using the
word 'womanizing'.

""if you avoid alcohol, tobacco, and wild women, you ll live to be
100, and it will seem like 200" Winston Churchill"

http://profiles.yahoo.com/sweetheart197984043

But I'd hate to think the answer to your question was contained in
myspace.com and yahoo profile pages.  I'd wait for a more
authoritative source.

Some other similiar quotes:

"...An old joke I learned in medical school goes like this. "If you
want to live to be 100, do not drink or smoke at all. Do not take any
chances. Have sex only for pro creational purposes. Do not eat rich
food, and do not travel unless you must. The fact is that you will not
live to be 110, it will just SEEM like it!" This joke always gets a
laugh..."

http://www.perf2ndwind.org/html/tompetty/2005/August-2005.html

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"...If you want to live to be 100, do not drink or smoke at all. Do
not take any chances. Have sex only for pro creational purposes. Do
not eat rich food, and do not travel unless you must. The fact is that
you will not live to be 110, it will just SEEM like it!" This joke
always gets a laugh..."

http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:qoATPhvnx0YJ:www.perf2ndwind.org/html/news/2005/August/Perf2ndwind_0805.pdf+seem-like+%22live+to+be+100+%22+200..1000&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=16

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Here are some other search results (too many for me to look through):

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