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
- In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
- 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.
- Electricity is really just organized lightning.
- What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
- Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
- The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
- The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
- Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
- If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
- At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
Best Quotes
- I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory.
- The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
- Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.
- Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.
- I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
- Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.
- Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.
- Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
- Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
- I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.