George Burns
» Age and Aging » “You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.”
» Age and Aging » “By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.”
» Age and Aging » “How can I die? I’m booked.”
» Age and Aging » “It’s good to be here. At 98, it’s good to be anywhere.”
» Change » “It’s hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.”
» Family » “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
» Government » “Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”
» Hollywood » “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.”
» Honesty » “You’ve got to be honest; if you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”
» Learning » “Be quick to learn and wise to know.”
» Life and Living » “Life’s but a day at most.”
» Life and Living » “Look to the future, because that is where you’ll spend the rest of your life.”
» Passion » “I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.”
» Retirement » “Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.”
