Quotes from Maurice Chevalier

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.

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

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

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

Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

The crime of loving is forgetting.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternative.

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

I prefer old age to the alternative.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.