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 BURNSActing is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
More George Burns Quotes
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Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
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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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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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At my age flowers scare me.
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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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I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
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Acting is all about 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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Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
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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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When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
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I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
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I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
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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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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.
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