Maurice Chevalier Quotes

#1. One does not grow old until he believes he has more to look back on than he has to look forward to.

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#2. I prefer old age to the alternative.

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#3. Old age is not that bad when you consider the alternative.

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#4. When you have done your best with what you know how to do best - and people everywhere look at you with a friendly smile.

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#5. 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 lasting happiness achieved.

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#6. It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

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#7. Do not be afraid to be afraid.

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#8. Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

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#9. The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

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#10. 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 hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

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#11. An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

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#12. 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 as marvelous a conversation piece as it is a timepiece.

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#13. A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for new goals.

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#14. Considering the alternative ... it's not too bad at all.

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#15. Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

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#16. The crime of loving is forgetting.

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#17. Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

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#18. The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

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#19. When you hit seventy you sleep sounder, you feel more alive than when you were thirty. Obviously it's healthier to have women on your mind than on your knees.

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