A Quote by Ashley Montagu

I want to die young at a ripe old age. — © Ashley Montagu
I want to die young at a ripe old age.
May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.
Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the 'Age War.' The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustain their old age.
Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already started to turn. I still say she died young.
How young can you die of old age?
Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.
I keep thinking how young can you die from old age
People don't die of old age, they die of diseases that accompany old age, and they are preventable.
I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.
I left Paramount at the ripe young age of sixty. A generation ago, that would have been retirement age. But my generation has more energy, more drive, and a greater life expectancy than any group of retirees before us. We are going to be here for two decades or more past 'retirement' age and we want to do something relevant in the so-called third act of our lives.
Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.
Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.
When I get to a ripe old age then talk of me as a great cricketer.
I have always thought of myself as an athlete - even at the ripe old age of 52.
Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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