George Burns Quotes

Oh, to be seventy again!

I love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young.

After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Don't look at me like I've gotten old or something like that.

There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.

Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.

At my age I'm envious of a stiff wind.

I still feel like I'm 19. We're old now!

We old roosters must be cautious. Don't try to outwit your arteries.

Ninety isn't old. You're old when your doctor doesn't X-ray you any more - he just holds you up to the light!

Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar.

Being seventy has its advantages. I was outspoken before, but now what have I got to keep quiet about?

It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

I don't think so much anymore. When you're younger, and at your height, then people want you to do that great one again. But seriously, things are forgotten, and that's the truth.

I'm at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk to.

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?

When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.

Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . .