Considering the alternative. . . it's not too bad at all. Maurice Chevalier More Quotes by Maurice Chevalier More Quotes From Maurice Chevalier You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing. Maurice Chevalier laughterpositiveinspirational I prefer old age to the alternative. Maurice Chevalier agingalternativesage 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 live-liferacehappiness 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 hopeagegiving 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 girllovefunny 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 differencesmenyears The crime of loving is forgetting. Maurice Chevalier loving-deeplycrimeforget Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. Maurice Chevalier healthbirthdayfunny 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 wintermorninglying Do not be afraid to be afraid. Maurice Chevalier The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself. Maurice Chevalier oneself 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 inspirationambitionsong 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 dreaminspirationalmemories An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public. Maurice Chevalier mysteriousartistlife 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 alivemindsleep 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 rolexpiecespeople It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations. Maurice Chevalier furjewelsmen Those whose approval you seek most give you the least. Maurice Chevalier appreciateapprovalgiving 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 friendlypeoplelooks One does not grow old until he believes he has more to look back on than he has to look forward to. Maurice Chevalier doebelievelooks
