If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

—George Burns

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About George Burns

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George Burns (born Nathan Birnbaum; January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996) was an American comedian, actor, writer, and singer, and one of the few entertainers whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film, and television. His arched eyebrow and cigar-smoke punctuation became familiar trademarks. He and his wife Gracie Allen...

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I want nothing to do with natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.

—George Burns

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I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

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

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Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.

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I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

—George Burns

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I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

—From a 1975 interview with Mick Jagger, who still performs the song at age sixty-seven

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I used to say, watching two elderly women crossing the street in flowered hats, holding each other's arms, "Look at those cute old ladies." I didn't mind the stereotypes that pepper movies and television shows. Now old people are no longer cute or mean or silly or wise to me. They are people, in all their broken fullness. Despite the glitches in faculties and functioning, anyone who's lived that long has learned something the rest of us don't know.

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Even very recently, the elders could say [to the youths]: "You know, I have been young and you never have been old." But today's young people can reply: "You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be." . . . This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal.

—Margaret Mead

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Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

—Maurice Chevalier

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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

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