"'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence..." - Quote by George Carlin
'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?
More by George Carlin
“Part of the pleasure of being alive is the knowledge that you're not dead yet.”
“I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.”
“I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I see them as symbols, and I leave them to the symbol-minded.”
More on Language
“There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.”
“Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap”
“It sure did kick up some excitement in the Senate when one Senator called the other Senators 'sons of Wild jackasses.' Well, if you thought it made the Senators hot, you wait till you see what happens when the jackasses hear how they have been slandered.”
More on Marriage
“If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated.”
“No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.”
“One should never know too precisely whom one has married”