Be quick to learn and wise to know.
GEORGE BURNSI’m very pleased to be here. Let’s face it, at my age I’m very pleased to be anywhere.
More George Burns Quotes
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If it’s a good script I’ll do it. And if it’s a bad script, and they pay me enough, I’ll do it.
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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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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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Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
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At my age flowers scare me.
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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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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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I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
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How can I die? I’m booked.
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Nice to be here? At my age it’s nice to be anywhere.
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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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Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
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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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You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.
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It’s good to be here. At 98, it’s good to be anywhere.
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