'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?
George CarlinWell, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?
George CarlinI'm tired of hearing about innocent victims. It's fiction, If you live on this planet you're guilty, period, f*** you, next case, end of report. Your birth certificate is proof of guilt.
George CarlinI recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.
George CarlinComedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids today", all those old-fashioned themes - or, if it's deeper, and somewhat more thoughtful, about social imbalance and inequities, and the folly of human behavior. It's usually a complaint.
George CarlinPrimitive societies, or social groupings, had shamans, and some of them even more recent in time. Shamans were tricksters. There was a tradition of the trickster, and the trickster was a clown, a humorous fellow. His task was to trick the gods, to humor the gods into laughing, so that there was access to the divine - because laughter is a moment when we are completely ourselves.
George Carlin