George Burns

Puzzles

• Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in ___ city.
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• When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only ___.
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• I look better, feel better, make love better and I'll tell you something else... I never ___ better.
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• First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your ___ up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
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• How can I die? I'm ___.
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• In those days the best painkiller was ice; it wasn't addictive and it was particularly effective if you poured some ___ over it.
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• I stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the ___ I can get.
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• There are two kinds of cruises – pleasure and with ___.
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• Don't stay in bed, unless you can make ___ in bed.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to George Burns?

  • → Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
  • → Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
  • → Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
  • → Man can not live by bread alone... He must have peanut butter.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed 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.
  • → It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
  • → Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
  • → All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to George Burns.

  • → Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.
  • → There is an illiteracy of the soul which no diploma cures.
  • → If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
  • → Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to George Burns. Which one?

  • → We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
  • → Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
  • → You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you’re down there.
  • → No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to George Burns?

  • → What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
  • → Bad news travels fast. Good news takes the scenic route.
  • → What actresses do today when they appear on the screen is what they did once upon a time for getting to appear on the screen.
  • → As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
  
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• Can you identify the right quote belonging to George Burns?

  • → Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
  • → I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.
  • → You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
  • → Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
  
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• Guess which of these quotes is attributed to George Burns.

  • → Happiness is a warm puppy.
  • → I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.
  • → It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
  • → When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.
  
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• One of the following quotations belongs to George Burns. Which one?

  • → Middleness is the very enemy of the bold.
  • → Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble.
  • → If you don't place your foot on the rope, you'll never cross the chasm.
  • → I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoyed than be a success at something I hate.
  
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• Can you guess which one of these belongs to George Burns?

  • → Amateurs practice till they get it right; professionals practice till they can’t get it wrong.
  • → First of all you've got to have talent. And then you've got to marry her like I did.
  • → Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
  • → Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
  
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• Try to identify the quote attributed to George Burns.

  • → Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
  • → If you remember the ’60s, you really weren’t there.
  • → I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
  • → The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
  
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• Looks like George Burns is the author of one of these.

  • → The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
  • → Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.
  • → I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
  • → The question isn’t at what age I want to retire, it’s at what income.
  
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• Pick the one quotation belonging to George Burns.

  • → Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn't show up on X-rays, but you know it's there.
  • → What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
  • → Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.
  • → We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
  
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• Which one should be attributed to George Burns?

  • → A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
  • → If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
  • → It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
  • → What best defines a child is the total inability to receive information from anything not plugged in.
  
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• Can you identify which quote belongs to George Burns?

  • → Fall seven times, stand up eight.
  • → A moment’s beginning ends in a moment
  • → And in the end, we were all just humans, drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
  • → Be sure to wear a good cologne, a nice aftershave lotion, and a strong underarm deodorant. And it might be a good idea to wear some clothes, too.
  
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• Select the quote belonging to George Burns.

  • → We cannot go back in time to make a new beginning, but we can begin now to make a new ending.
  • → Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
  • → If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.
  • → There will always be a battle between the sexes because men and women want different things. Men want women and women want men.
  
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• Choose which quotation belongs to George Burns.

  • → The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
  • → I shut my eyes in order to see.
  • → Anyone who can drive safely while kissing is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
  • → Be quick to learn and wise to know.
  
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• Select the quote, which is attributable to George Burns.

  • → This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
  • → Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
  • → Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
  • → It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.
  
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