Ashley Montagu Quotes

The fact that healthier lifestyles and advances in medicine mean that we are living longer is actually something to be celebrated.

We can all live longer, better, than we ever could before. You don't have to retire.

Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

We are living longer, and we need to live better.

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

If you want to live a hundred years, how do you want to live your life? At the age of 100, you should go shopping with your great-grandchildren, but not in a wheelchair.

We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life.

I plan to live to be 120!

It is not enough for a great nation merely to have added new years of life—our objective must also be to add new life to those years.

With the right care at the right time, a huge number of people could stay independent much longer, with a higher quality of life.

I wanna live long. As long as I can.

I just want to live a long healthy life, and I don't want to have any neurological diseases or die younger than I would otherwise.

I really want to live longer. It's a goal of mine.

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span.

Without your health, everything else means nothing.

I think anyone who wants to live past 100 can do it.

I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential.

The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.

My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can.