Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
GEORGE BURNSToo bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
GEORGE BURNSI’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
GEORGE BURNSI 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.
GEORGE BURNSI honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
GEORGE BURNSI’m very pleased to be here. Let’s face it, at my age I’m very pleased to be anywhere.
GEORGE BURNSFirst you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
GEORGE BURNSI’m at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
GEORGE BURNSRetirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
GEORGE BURNSIf 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 BURNSBe quick to learn and wise to know.
GEORGE BURNSWhen I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
GEORGE BURNSHappiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
GEORGE BURNSI can’t afford to die; I’d lose too much money.
GEORGE BURNSI look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNSYou 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 BURNSI spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
GEORGE BURNS