[Fein praised Burns as a] singer, dancer, straight man, comedian, and actor who will leave a very large void in our lives. ... to keep doing what he loved best. |
Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can't wait to finish your breakfast. You can't wait to do your exercises. You can't wait to get out -- and you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot. |
Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up. |
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down. |
Fortunately, |
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. |
I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money. |
I like women to be attracted to me. See, when you get 60 years old, and they know you're 60, the only women you can get are 55-year-old women, and I like younger women. |
I think I look about 40 to 45, so I like it. |
I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoyed than be a success at something I hate. |
I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like. |
If I get big laughs, I'm a comedian. If I get little laughs, I'm a humorist. If I get no laughs, I'm a singer. |
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. |
If you live to the age of a hundred you have it made because very few people die past the age of a hundred. |
It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere. |