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

~ George Burns

George Burns Family Happiness Humor

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

~ George Burns

George Burns Humor Politics

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

~ George Burns

George Burns Age Humor

Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If money is so evil, shouldn't it be, 'A wise man and his money are soon parted'? And another thing, how does a fool get money in the first place? I know some fools who have a lot of money, but they won't tell me how they got it, and I won't tell them.

~ George Burns

George Burns Evil Fool Humor Money Sayings Wisdom

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

~ George Burns

George Burns Failure Success

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

~ George Burns

George Burns Naughty Old Times Sex

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

~ George Burns

George Burns Old Age Sex

There isn't a thing I can't do now that I didn't do when I was twenty-one...which gives you an idea of how pathetic I was when I was twenty-one. (That's a lie, but I might as well tell you something right here at the beginning of the book. Anytime I can get a laugh I'm not going to let the truth interfere with it.)

~ George Burns

George Burns Aging Comedians Humor Truth

With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.

~ George Burns

George Burns Acting Theatre

I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be I always forget to include myself.

~ George Burns

George Burns Aging Old Age

I stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.

~ George Burns

George Burns Birthdays Age

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there.

~ George Burns

George Burns Birthdays Age

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

~ George Burns

George Burns Government Rule

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

~ George Burns

George Burns Professions Work

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

~ George Burns

George Burns Love Success Hate

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

George Burns Love Success Hate

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

~ George Burns

George Burns Getting Older Help You

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

~ George Burns

George Burns Funny Past People

At my age flowers scare me.

~ George Burns

George Burns Birthday Flowers Me

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

~ George Burns

George Burns Retirement Ridiculous

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

~ George Burns

George Burns Face Here Pleased

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

~ George Burns

George Burns Day Smoke Hold

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

~ George Burns

George Burns Women Go Would

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

~ George Burns

George Burns Nice Here Anywhere

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

George Burns Good Woman You

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

~ George Burns

George Burns Together Beginning Ending

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

~ George Burns

George Burns Year Sunday Town

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

~ George Burns

George Burns Life My Life Rest
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