Maurice Chevalier Quotes

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• A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us…
• If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or…
• You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.
• The crime of loving is forgetting.
• Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
• I prefer old age to the alternative.
• Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
• Only soldiers and labouring men can appreciate how glorious it really is to lie late in bed in winter-time. When your life revolves around having…
• Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and you are left,…
• When you have done your best with what you know how to do best - and people everywhere look at you with a friendly smile.
• Considering the alternative. . . it's not too bad at all.
• Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.
• An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.
• Like a genial hotelier, Rolex has introduced me to some of the nicest people. I ask about their Rolex and they ask about mine. It's…
• The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.
• The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.
• It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.
• A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for…
• Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
• Aging isn't that bad if you consider the alternatives.

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