{"id":1379,"date":"2013-09-18T15:03:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T15:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2013-09-20T00:53:52","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T00:53:52","slug":"george-burns-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=1379","title":{"rendered":"George Burns quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Speech-marks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-487\" style=\"width: 104px; height: 110px;\" alt=\"Speech marks\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Speech-marks-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Burns, George (1896 &#8211; 1996), US actor &amp; comedian<\/span><\/b><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>If you live to be one hundred, you&#8217;ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can&#8217;t remember if it&#8217;s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>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.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Age to me means nothing. I can&#8217;t get old; I&#8217;m working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you&#8217;re working, you stay young. When I&#8217;m in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Don&#8217;t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I&#8217;d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn&#8217;t ask me, I&#8217;d still have to say it.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you&#8217;ve got it made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burns, George (1896 &#8211; 1996), US actor &amp; comedian If you live to be one hundred, you&#8217;ve got it made. Very few people die past that age. It takes only one drink to get me drunk. 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