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 BURNSIf you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.
More George Burns Quotes
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How can I die? I’m booked.
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First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
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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.
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Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
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Nice to be here? At my age it’s nice to be anywhere.
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I can’t afford to die; I’d lose too much money.
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Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that’s down can come up.
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It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
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It’s hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
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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.
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I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
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The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
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It’s good to be here. At 98, it’s good to be anywhere.
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