George Burns Quotes
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I find you have to take each day as it comes and be thankful for who's left and whatever you can still do.
— George Burns
I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money.
— George Burns
I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.
— George Burns
My best advice: Fall in love with what you do for a living.
— George Burns
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.
— George Burns
There has been foolish talk about audiences having an average twelve-year-old mind: it just isn't true. They are older than anybody, and wiser.
— George Burns
I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself.
— George Burns
I worried about playing God (in the movie Oh God). We're about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods.
— George Burns
There are two kinds of cruises - pleasure and with children.
— George Burns
Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.
— George Burns
In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy.
— George Burns
Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of it.
— George Burns
I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
— George Burns
I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate.
— George Burns
It burns, it does. Nothing burns like the cold.
— George R R Martin
Nothing burns like the cold.
— George R R Martin
There will always be a battle between the sexes because men and women want different things. Men want women and women want men.
— George Burns
I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.
— George Burns
From Paris we took the Orient Express to Vienna. I must say I was terribly disappointed; nobody was murdered on the train.
— George Burns
When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
— George Burns
Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there.
— George Burns
Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or fourteenth.
— George Burns
Be sure to wear a good cologne, a nice aftershave lotion, and a strong underarm deodorant. And it might be a good idea to wear some clothes, too.
— George Burns
Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives.
— George Burns
Dress simply. If you wear a dinner jacket, don't wear anything else on it ... like lunch or dinner.
— George Burns
In those days the best painkiller was ice; it wasn't addictive and it was particularly effective if you poured some whiskey over it.
— George Burns
Young. Old. Just Words.
— George Burns
I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.
— George Burns
George Burns was the father I never had.
— Bobby Darin
If I get big laughs, I'm a comedian. If I get little laughs, I'm a humorist. If I get no laughs, I'm a singer.
— George Burns
A sword of fire! It burns! It burns! A sword of fire!
— George R R Martin
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
— George Burns
I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down.
— George Burns
When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights.
— George Burns
I never go jogging, it makes me spill my martini.
— George Burns
There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.
— George Burns
When we played the back end of a horse we always knew that if we worked hard and did a good job we could become the front end.
— George Burns
I drink coffee with my right hand, and I smoke with my left. But I talk with both hands.
— George Burns
Be quick to learn and wise to know.
— George Burns
Too much light can hurt the eyes, my friend, and fire burns.
— George R R Martin
Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years.
— George Burns
Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.
— George Burns
There's nothing wrong with making love with the light on. Just make sure the car door is closed.
— George Burns
How did I ever get sick? I've already had everything.
— George Burns
What actresses do today when they appear on the screen is what they did once upon a time for getting to appear on the screen.
— George Burns
It's one of the old show business axioms. No matter how successful you've been, there's always a younger and sexier seal coming along.
— George Burns
When I die I intend to take my music with me. I don't know what's out there, but I want to make sure it's in my key.
— George Burns
I know George Burns was a very happy man.
— Marlo Thomas
When asked in his late 90s if his doctor knew he still smoked, Burns said, 'No ... he's dead.'
— George Burns
As long as you're working, you stay young.
— George Burns
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
— George Burns
Young. Old. Just words. Inside we feel like our shoe size.
— George Burns
The fire that burns against the cold.
— George R R Martin
So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.
— Leigh Steinberg
I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
— George Burns
If you stay in the business long enough and get to be old enough, you get to be new again.
— George Burns
If I paid $3 or $4 for a cigar, first I'd sleep with it.
— George Burns
George Burns, what a man. He read in the paper that it takes ten dollars a year to support a kid in India. So he sent his kids there.
— Red Buttons
Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!
— George Burns
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
— George Burns
Yale men do not like to be told anything by people who didn't go to Yale. The closest I came to Yale was once I had one of their padlocks.
— George Burns
None of us kids had a middle name. We were lucky we had any name at all. By the time my mother got around to naming one, there was another on the way.
— George Burns
I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.
— George Burns
When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend ... well, a legend, anyhow.
— Don Rickles
I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries.
— George Burns
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
— George Burns
I'd rather be over the hill than under it.
— George Burns
People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.
— George Burns
It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.
— George Burns
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
— George Burns
How can I die? I'm booked.
— George Burns
The heart is a temple wherein all truth resides.
— George Burns
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
— George Burns
I get a standing ovation just standing
— George Burns
Say Goodnight Gracie.
— George Burns