"The secret of a good sermon is to……" — George Burns
"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible."
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108 Quotes by George Burns
George Burns has 108 quotes on this site.
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I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at…
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
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Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
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It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or…
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Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it…
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When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
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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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First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget…
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You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while…
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I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
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Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
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More Beginning Quotes
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came…
— Hannah Arendt
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
— Karen Armstrong
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
— Chinua Achebe
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The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
— Margaret Atwood
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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
— Saint Augustine
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
— Marcus Aurelius
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
— Sri Aurobindo
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