A Quote by Maurice Chevalier

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

Maurice Chevalier

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Gets More Older Oneself Resemble

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Maurice Chevalier
French - Actor
September 12, 1888 - January 1, 1972

You get the feeling that childhood does not last as long as it used to. Innocence gets harder to hold on to as the world gets older, as it accumulates more experience, more mileage and more blood on the tracks.

Martin Amis

People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.

Arthur Helps

As a person gets older, time gets more interesting. As a kid, you waste so much of it.

James Rosenquist

Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.

Nicole Krauss

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

Mickey Spillane

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

Basil Rathbone

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

Paul Auster

I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?

Charles Dickens

Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.

Gwyneth Paltrow

They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.

Ariel Gore

I love looking at old photographs. I don't know if it's something that gets more appealing as one gets older and you're trying to get a sense of your place in the world and the little area that your life has taken up.

Ruth Jones

I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.

John Banville

I can't tell you that I like getting older, but I think I can cope with it because everybody gets older. Sometimes it's a little upsetting because time goes by and you want to do more and you have to accept life for what it is and find some new motivation that gives you drive and enthusiasm.