George Burns Quotes

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.
George Burns
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
George Burns
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
George Burns
I look better feel better make love better and I'll tell you something else ... I never lied better.
George Burns
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
George Burns
Happiness is having a large loving caring close-knit family ... in another city.
George Burns
Happiness is having a large loving caring close-knit family in another city.
George Burns
In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that the rest is easy.
George Burns
I stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.
George Burns
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there.
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
With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.
George Burns
There isn't a thing I can't do now that I didn't do when I was twenty-one...which gives you an idea of how pathetic I was when I was twenty-one. (That's a lie, but I might as well tell you something right here at the beginning of the book. Anytime I can get a laugh I'm not going to let the truth interfere with it.)
George Burns
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
George Burns
I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
George Burns
I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate.
George Burns
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending and to have the two as close together as possible.
George Burns
Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If money is so evil, shouldn't it be, 'A wise man and his money are soon parted'? And another thing, how does a fool get money in the first place? I know some fools who have a lot of money, but they won't tell me how they got it, and I won't tell them.
George Burns
When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
George Burns
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
George Burns
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
George Burns