George Burns: George Burns

Quotes 

• George Burns : Here's one thing parents can't figure out. Why do their children hate school? We parents have loved it ever since our kids were old enough to go to it.

• George Burns : [Gracie discusses each of her aunt's nine husbands]  Who was number eight?

  Gracie Allen : A doctor, Uncle Leo. Oh, a fine man and very successful.

  George Burns : Oh, finally picked a good one, huh?

  Gracie Allen : Yes, and they were very happy for several days.

  George Burns : Then what happened?

  Gracie Allen : Well, then he began coming home every night and telling her everything his patients had told him that day, and it made her very nervous and so she left him.

  George Burns : Because his patients talked to him?

  Gracie Allen : He was a tree surgeon.

  George Burns : Um, who came after Uncle Leo?

  Gracie Allen : A couple men in white coats.