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George Burns Quotes


Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

At my age flowers scare me.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

How can I die? I'm booked.

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money.

I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.