Famous Quotes

Quotes by George Burns

• At my age flowers scare me.
• 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.
• 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.
• I can't afford to die I'd lose too much money.
• 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.
• I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.
• If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
• Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
• Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.
• Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
• Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
• When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
• You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.