Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
Quote by George Burns
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Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
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George Burns Quotes
- I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
- 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.
- At my age flowers scare me.
- 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.
- You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
- I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.
- Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.
- Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
- If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
Best Quotes
- Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
- I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.
- There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
- There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
- A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
- Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
- I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That's a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that.
- It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.
- The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
- War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.