George Burns Quotes

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

I'm actually totally the prude of my family.

Chaste is she whom no one has asked.

I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.

I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.

Before the Beatles, America was musically a very conservative country. You can see film footage of people at a baseball game, they all had hats and ties on, and the women were dressed up like they were going to church. That was the America that I started getting interested in musically.

I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.

I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.

How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.

I don't think I ever will do a sex scene because of my religion and my personal standards.

Young people are told that they are standing up for Christ and resisting America's sexualized culture by claiming virginity as a countercultural, radical stance.

Let him not throw urine or feces into the water, nor saliva, nor clothes defiled by impure substances, nor any other impurity, nor blood, nor poisonous things.

Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear.

Every American deserves to breathe clean air.

Consumption of wine has been made legal; mixing of sexes in the schools … has led to the proliferation of bastards. Depravity has spread and we see that women no longer cover themselves but display their bodies with makeup for all to see both indoors and outdoors. Where is the dignity of the Algerian man after his honor has been publicly flouted?