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 MEIRThose who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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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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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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