Maurice Chevalier – Quote Investigator®

Quote Origin: When You Are Young, You Have the Face Your Parents Gave You. After You Are Forty, You Have the Face You Deserve

George Orwell? Coco Chanel? Mae West? Ingrid Bergman? Albert Camus? Abraham Lincoln? Edwin M. Stanton? Lucius E. Chittenden? Albert Schweitzer? Maurice Chevalier? William H. Seward? Edward Lee Hawk? William Shakspeare? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: A person’s true character can be deduced by the careful study of the face according to believers in physiognomy. This …

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Quote Origin: Old Age Isn’t So Bad When You Consider the Alternative

Maurice Chevalier? Olin Miller? Harry Oliver? Louis Calhern? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: The following piece of humorous proverbial wisdom has been attributed to the film star Maurice Chevalier. Here are four versions of the joke: (1) Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.(2) Growing old isn’t so terrible — when you …

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