Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
Quote by George Burns
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
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George Burns Quotes
- Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.
- Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
- If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
- Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
- I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
- Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
- I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
- I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
- Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
Best Quotes
- When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
- I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.
- A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
- In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.
- When art wins, everyone wins.
- We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.
- May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
- It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
- If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
- My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.