"We've learned how to make a living,..." - Quote by George Carlin
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years.
More by George Carlin
“Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.”
“Of course, in Los Angeles, everything is based on driving, even the killings. In New York, most people don't have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway to their house. And sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway. That's why there are so many subway murders; no one has a car.”
“Grass probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer.”
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“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
“Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass, - this was my daily work.”