Maurice Chevalier Quotes

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.

When you are 81 years old, you don't really need a lot of the trappings of wealth.

I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Being old is such a treat!

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences in your life - a loving family, friends - you don't need additional reassurances that you're going to do something with a new cast of characters. I'd just as soon pass.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

At 66 years of age, I feel about 20.

Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.

At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Few people know how to be old.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.

Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.