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Aging Quotes by George Burns
- You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
- You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
- Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.
- At my age flowers scare me.
- 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.
- Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left
- How can I die? I'm booked.
- I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old. When I was 65, I had Cupid's eczema. I…
More Aging Quotes
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
- When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something… — Chinua Achebe
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. — Saint Augustine
- You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. — Marcus Aurelius
- I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. — Lauren Bacall
- Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon
- I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. — Francis Bacon
- He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon