George Burns Quotes

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

Success, Love, Failure

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

Funny, Happiness, Family

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
George Burns

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

Money, Stay, Bed

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

Time, Everything, Down

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
George Burns

Funny, Sick, Dead

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.
George Burns

Happiness, Good, Bad

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

Forget, Down, Next

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
George Burns

Drunk, Remember, Trouble

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
George Burns

Bad, Busy, Country

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
George Burns

Age, Sex, Trying

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
George Burns

Stress, Important, Single

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

Fake, Honesty, Made

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

Future, Life, Rest

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
George Burns

Down, Old, Else

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

Love, Success, Failure

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
George Burns

Life, Future, Rest

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

Sex, Remember, Dirty

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
George Burns

Funny, Age, Live

The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
George Burns

Fake, Important, Honesty

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
George Burns

Bad, Busy, Country

Be quick to learn and wise to know.
George Burns

Wise, Learn, Quick

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.
George Burns

Fake, Made, Honest

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
George Burns

Funny, Sunday, Year

Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.
George Burns

Age, Nice, Here

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: January 20, 1896

Died: March 9, 1996

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