George Burns Quotes About Age
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When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
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I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down.
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At my age flowers scare me.
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I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.
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Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.
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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.
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In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought to go into show business. I've been retired all my life.
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Should I be the one to play God? We're both about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods.
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I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.
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I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
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I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
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I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.
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Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.
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When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
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Young. Old. Just Words.
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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.
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I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
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When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.
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How can I die? I'm booked.
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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
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Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.
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By [age] 93, I had shrunk quite a lot. My car was known as the Phantom Cadillac. People would see it whizzing by and they would swear there was no driver.
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People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.
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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
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