George Burns Famous Quotes
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
I get a standing ovation jaust standing.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Nice to be here At my age it's nice to be anywhere.
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
"I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age."
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.
"Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can't wait to finish your breakfast. You can't wait to do your exercises. You can't wait to put on your clothes. You can't wait to get out -- and you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot."
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
"Age to me means nothing. I can't get old I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age."
George Burns Quotations
"It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows for so he giveth his beloved sleep."
Psalm 1272 Bible
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
Sir Winston Churchill
"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
Peter Steiner
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
Horace
"...a sword never kills anybody it's a tool in the killer's hand. From Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Letters to Lucilius on Morals, Letter 87, c.63-65"
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Those who stand strong will stand forever.
Joshua D Clark
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
Georges Bataille
No good plan survives contact with the enemy.
Unknown
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
Michael Pritchard
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
Saint Francis of Assisi