Be quick to learn and wise to know.
GEORGE BURNSToo bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
More George Burns Quotes
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I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
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Nice to be here? At my age it’s nice to be anywhere.
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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.
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Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
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At my age flowers scare me.
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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 all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
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I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
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You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.
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I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.
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It’s good to be here. At 98, it’s good to be anywhere.
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Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
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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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I’m at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
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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.
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