31 Quotes By George Burns


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

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

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

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

At my age flowers scare me.
George Burns on age

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

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

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

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.
George Burns on age

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 on failure

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

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

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

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

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

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

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
George Burns on funny

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

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

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 on good