Quotes & Jokes by George Burns / page 5

Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.

Yale men do not like to be told anything by people who didn't go to Yale. The closest I came to Yale was once I had one of their padlocks.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

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.

Fall in love with what you do for a living. I don't care what it is. It works.

"Money is the root of all evil." Then we hear, "A fool and his money are soon parted." What are they talking about? If money is so evil, shouldn't it be, "A wise man and his money are soon parted"? And another thing, how does a fool get money in the first place? I know some fools who have a lot of money, but they won't tell me how they got it, and I won't tell them.

Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

When Jack Benny has a party, you not only bring your own scotch, you bring your own rocks.

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.

Life's but a day at most.

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.

I thought to myself, 'why not write a bestseller?' In the first place, more people buy them and more people read them. You make more money and it doesn’t take any more time to write a bestseller than it does to write a book nobody buys.