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Age Quotes by George Burns
- You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
- When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
- Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.
- If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
- Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
- Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.
- At my age flowers scare me.
- I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
- I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
- I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.
- 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…
- I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.
- I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
- Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.
- How can I die? I'm booked.
- I worried about playing God (in the movie Oh God). We're about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods.
- When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
- Young. Old. Just Words.
- I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.
- 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…
- Sex at age ninety is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
More Age Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every… — Brooks Atkinson
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood