George Burns: George Burns

Quotes 

• George Burns : Isn't Gracie wonderful? Ya know that she's not the least bit jealous of me? It's true. When I was first courting her we were walking down the street and a pretty girl passed and I whistled at her. You know what Gracie did? She liked what I was whistling and she joined in.

• George Burns : Pretty women have caused trouble all through history. Look at Cleopatra and Helen of Troy, they lived back in uh - in um - in um... oh, way back... far, far back. That's part of the trouble they caused in history, they made me flunk.

• George Burns : There's a saying that married couples fight because it's wonderful to make up. The Mortons have been married for 12 years, they haven't made up yet, but when they do it ought to be a beauty.

• Gracie Allen : Oh you know, sometimes we women get so sick and tired of the kind of men we married, we wish we hadn't married them. And if there were any other kinda men, we wouldn'ta married them either!

  George Burns : What have we rats been doing now?

  Gracie Allen : Oh, dear, I don't mean you. I was talking about men, so don't take it personally.