Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
Quote by George Carlin
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Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
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George Carlin Quotes
- Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
- In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
- By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
- What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
- By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.
- Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
- The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
- Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
Best Quotes
- Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
- He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
- A house is built with bricks, and love with words is too.
- Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
- Our whole society is instantaneous.
- Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
- We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
- I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
- For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
- Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.