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

- Jeanne Calment

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

- 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

Every age has its happiness and troubles.

- Jeanne Calment

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

- Jeanne Calment

Wit doesn't make girls pretty.

- Jeanne Calment

I didn't like mundane life.

- Jeanne Calment

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

- Jeanne Calment

I've been forgotten by our Good Lord.

- Jeanne Calment