George Burns

George Burns---in the 1950s, at the height of Burns & Allen's fame---the greatest straight man in American comedy.

20 Quotes

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

George Burns

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

George Burns

How can I die? I'm booked.

George Burns

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

George Burns

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

George Burns

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

George Burns

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.

George Burns

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.

George Burns

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

George Burns

Life's but a day at most.

George Burns

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

George Burns

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

George Burns

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

George Burns

I did have a talent—and I was married to her for 38 years.

George Burns

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up, and finally you forget to pull it down.

George Burns

I’m very pleased to be here. Let’s face it, at my age I’m very pleased to be anywhere.

George Burns

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.

George Burns

The happiest people I know are the ones that are still working. The saddest are the ones who are retired.

George Burns

If I’d taken my doctor’s advice and quit smoking when he advised me to, I wouldn’t have lived to go to his funeral.

George Burns