Ed Burns Quotes

It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

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.

Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

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

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

My heart 's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart 's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

Now's the day and now's the hour.

When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights.

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

Life is but a day at most.

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

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.

Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.

I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

And God said 'Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on me. And let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan.'

Believe that there are no limitations, no barriers to your success --- you will be empowered and you will achieve.

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.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.

Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min?

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

Young. Old. Just words. Inside we feel like our shoe size.

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - We had ne'er been broken hearted

I’m a Southern girl. I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I’m really into a man’s man.

My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!

To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.