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.
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 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 BURNSI’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
GEORGE BURNSI can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
GEORGE BURNSI smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
GEORGE BURNSI spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
GEORGE BURNSIt’s hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
GEORGE BURNSYou’ve got to be honest; if you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
GEORGE BURNSEverything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that’s down can come up.
GEORGE BURNSAt my age flowers scare me.
GEORGE BURNSHappiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
GEORGE BURNSRetirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
GEORGE BURNSThe most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
GEORGE BURNSIt takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
GEORGE BURNSToo bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
GEORGE BURNSI’m at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
GEORGE BURNS