Be quick to learn and wise to know.
GEORGE BURNSBe quick to learn and wise to know.
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 BURNSThis is the sixth book I’ve written, which isn’t bad for a guy who’s only read two.
GEORGE BURNSFirst you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
GEORGE BURNSI can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
GEORGE BURNSThe secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
GEORGE BURNSI’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
GEORGE BURNSRetirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
GEORGE BURNSEverything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that’s down can come up.
GEORGE BURNSI can’t afford to die; I’d lose too much money.
GEORGE BURNSI smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
GEORGE BURNSHappiness? 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.
GEORGE BURNSYou’ve got to be honest; if you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
GEORGE BURNSI would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
GEORGE BURNSWhen I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
GEORGE BURNS