George Carlin's full name was George Denis Patrick Carlin. He was an American standup comedian. He was regarded as an influential and significant comic of all time. Apart from a standup comedian, he was also a famous author, actor, and social critic. He did standup comedy in different genres like observational comedy, surreal comedy, blue comedy, dark comedy, satire, wordplay, and many more. But he played the most attractive character in the dark comedy. He was influenced by included Danny Kaye, Jonathan Winters, and many more. There is one, Carlin's Warning which signifies what the performers do not have to say during their live performances. He was also known for his masterful knowledge of English literature. One of his comedies is being a part of a radio censorship case titled Seven Dirty Words comedy routine. This comedy routine was further taken to the supreme court in 1978. In the years 2009 and 1973, he was awarded a Grammy Award for the Best Comedy Album titles as It's bad for ya and FM & AM, respectively. In 2001, he was awarded the American comedy award for lifetime achievement.
Below are some of the famous George Carlin Quotes.
The planet is fine. The people are f*cked.
George Carlin wants to say something significant with these words. He wants to say that the people around me are unenlightened and self-interested, which doesn't impress me. This way of people somehow inconvenienced me. There is nothing wrong with the planet, but something is wrong with the people.
Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
Don't fret over small things or be unhappy about small things, and the second part is don't be around the things that make you unhappy or worried.
Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
If you can do other things often, make it a way to laugh often with a loudness. Laugh as much as you can. Laughing helps to relieve your sadness and make you happier. Laugh with a gasping breath that others can listen to you, how happy you are with both your soul and heart.
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
This quote reflects George Carlin's truthful nature. He said that to bless a person with positive vibes in his or her life and all the negative vibes forget the right way to reach your destination. He wished that your life was filled with a positive aura and happiness.
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
This quote means that fighting results in destroying peace, and screwing for f*cking results in destroying virginity. Therefore, doing such things make no sense, and both these things are pointless. Do what makes sense.
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That's why they call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
George Carlin means that you need to wake up to work for it and believe that it is possible to fulfil your biggest dreams. The biggest dream wants a lot of effort, patience, and co consistency on your part. Either in this single journey of life, a dream may be a dream that always does not come as a reality.
Don't just teach your children to read…teach them to question everything that they read…teach them to question everything.
This quote means that don't try to learn, learn and learn. There is a difference between learning and gain. For gaining something and learning it perfectly that you can apply in your journey of life. You first need it to know what is right and what is wrong. You have to question everything, if you are not questioning anything, it means that you have no doubt, no learning, no gaining.
We've added years to life, not life to years.
You have to add years to life. This means that doing good and memorable makes your year's uncountable happiness, and the second part means that don't add only a sad and unhappy life that is just waiting for death and live a life for the sake of living it.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to have selfish, ignorant leaders.
Leaders are also elected people from these citizens. If there are citizens who don't care about what they want from their leaders, how they want to get better in their lives. The leaders are also not responsible though with their citizens.
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
Some incidents happen in a person's life that disappoints him. When a person's expectations come in a way, people start disappointing. A person starts hurting with expectations.
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By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
Language plays a very important role in our life. The whole truth depends on the language we are using. The person who can understand your language, able to understands you. The truth part of your life is more concealing based on your language.
Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are good at it.
Many people in this world have no exposure to their work how they start doing. What they are accepted to do, they do it for the sake of living. While they get no insights into how they are doing good with his work or passion.
If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea…does that mean that 1 enjoys it?
If you are living in a group of people having suffered all around. You also start suffering from your surroundings. Your health, well-being, and happiness depend on your surroundings, and the nature of your living is affected by your surroundings.
People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.
This saying by George Carlin is a true statement. People who always pretend that they don't want to care about other people thinking or judgments. These people are more involved in letting know to others that they don't care about such things. A person who is not involved in pretending is different from a person who involves in pretending to others.
The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
George Calvin states that he is the person to whom he listened and accepted all the things. When you are inviting talking to yourself, you are starting to get true and generous answers about yourself.
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Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.
This single life is given to you on this Earth to find you the reason for living your life with the fullest happiness and with no worries. But, when you find out the meaning of your life, everyone around you starts to change your meaning of life.
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.
Being a standup comedian, George Carlin lives with his work. So, he wanted to advise every people in this world to do whatever they want to do without having trouble. He struggles a lot to live for his dream. Therefore, he states such kind of statement.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
When you are aware of your winning situation, it will end up titled as a game. The game is between two people who are the best competitors, and there is an equal of winning from both sides. There is no probability on a single side of a coin.
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough not to quit.
The whole situation is in your control. You need to maintain whatever you want. If your work is good enough, no one can fire you or underestimate you. Your talent, passion for doing work makes your identity more stringer than usual.
Men are from Earth; women are from Earth. Deal with it.
When people talk about feminism or being a feminist, women think about men being superior. He said that men don't want anything extraordinary. Both belong to the Earth. Men and women are equal.
