My 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.
GOLDA MEIRMen who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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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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I don’t want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there’s no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won’t die young.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I’m not what I’d like to be.
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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
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