It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
GOLDA MEIRMy dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
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I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.
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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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