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...64
My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old. - Gracie Allen when George Burns was only 64. He lived to be 100.

...65
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. - George Burns

...75
I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now -- I'm booked. - George Burns at 75

...80
By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it. - George Burns

...87
People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit. - George Burns

...90
I was introduced to a beautiful young lady as a man in his nineties. Early nineties, I insisted. - George Burns

...95
People are always asking me when I'm going to retire. Why should I? I've got it two ways -- I'm still making movies, and I'm a senior citizen, so I can see myself at half price. - George Burns, CBS TV 'George Burns's 95th Birthday Party'

...98
It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere. - George Burns

...100
If you live to the age of a hundred you have made it because very few people die past the age of a hundred. - George Burns who lived to be 100.

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