George Burns

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• I would rather be a failure doing something I love than be a sucess doing something I hate.

  • Work

• Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

  • Comedy
  • Happiness

• Sex at age ninety is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

  • Sex

All 8 quotes from George Burns

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy