Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
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't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
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.
At my age flowers scare me.
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
Be quick to learn and wise to know.
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
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