Nice to be here? At my age it’s nice to be anywhere.
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.
More George Burns Quotes
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If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.
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Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
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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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You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.
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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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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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Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
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I’m very pleased to be here. Let’s face it, at my age I’m very pleased to be anywhere.
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I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
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I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
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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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How can I die? I’m booked.
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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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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
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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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