Maurice Chevalier Quotes

• You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Inspirational, Positive, Laughter

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• I prefer old age to the alternative.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Age, Alternatives, Aging

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• 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.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Happiness, Live Life, Race

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

  Maurice Chevalier

  Men, Years, Differences

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

  Maurice Chevalier

  Love, Funny, Girl

  Quoted in Helen Handley, The Lover's Quotation Book (1986)

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• Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Funny, Birthday, Health

  Quoted in James B. Simpson, Contemporary Quotations (1964)

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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 hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Hope, Giving, Age

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• 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.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Inspirational, Dream, Memories

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• The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Oneself

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• The crime of loving is forgetting.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Forget, Crime, Loving Deeply

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

  Maurice Chevalier

  Believe, Doe, Looks

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• Do not be afraid to be afraid.

  Maurice Chevalier

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

  Maurice Chevalier

  Men, Jewels, Fur

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• 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 to to be at work at seven o'clock in the morning you know everything about that ghastly lep up still half asleep and the rush to put your head under a tap of ice-cold water with the barbarous object of shocking yourself awake.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Morning, Lying, Winter

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• 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.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Sleep, Mind, Alive

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

  Maurice Chevalier

  Alternatives, Statistics, Considering

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• Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Appreciate, Giving, Approval

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• 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, pen or brush in hand, with no inspiration at all. Gifted people need not, therefore, make a song and dance about being or supposing themselves superior. They simply happened to be born with that fortunate, subconscious equipment of theirs, and the mystery exists independently of intelligence or ambition.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Song, Inspiration, Ambition

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• 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.

  Maurice Chevalier

  People, Pieces, Rolex

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

  Maurice Chevalier

  Life, Artist, Mysterious

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Maurice Chevalier

  People, Friendly, Looks

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