George Burns Cigar Quotes & Sayings

When they saw me walking down the street smoking a cigar, they'd say, 'Hey, that 14-year-old kid may be going places.' Of course it's also a good prop on the stage ... When you can't think of what you're supposed to say next, you can puff on your cigar until you think of your next line. — George Burns

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill. — George Burns

Adults have
the benefit of experience and know the trick will work as long as the technique is correct.
When we "grow up" we gain this experience and knowledge, but we lose our innocence and
sense of wonder. In other words, the price we pay for growing up is a permanent sense of
loss. — Alberto Alvaro Rios

If I paid $3 or $4 for a cigar, first I'd sleep with it. — George Burns

It was your body ... that danced at your first drum circle; it was your body that gave birth to your child; it was your body that got down and dirty in the back seat of your dad's station wagon; it was your body that shivered, sweated, clasped its hands, fell to its knees, wept, and laughed the first time you felt the presence of the goddess in your life. — Dianne Sylvan

I use the cigar for timing purposes. If I tell a joke, I smoke as long as they laugh and when they stop laughing I take the cigar out of my mouth and start my next joke. — George Burns

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words. — Norman Mailer

If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it. — George Burns

I respect deeply that each project brings its own secret and wonderful gifts and happy accidents. — Lake Bell

By 7:55 am on December 7, World War II in the Pacific had been in progress for more than eight hours. — Jeffrey Cox

that that won't be the case." "I don't trust — David Baldacci

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle. — George Burns