“The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.”
More from George Carlin on Humor
“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.”
“Atheism is a non-prophet organization.”
“I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their final exam.”
“Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?”
“I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.”
“Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.”
“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.”
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
“Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.”
Others on Humor
Groucho Marx
23 quotes“Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.”
H. L. Mencken
11 quotes“Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.”
Ambrose Bierce
10 quotes“Apologize v: to lay the foundation for a future offence.”
Sir Winston Churchill
10 quotes“Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”
Douglas Adams
9 quotes“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special law...”
Mary West
9 quotes“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
Laurence Peter
9 quotes“Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.”
Will Rogers
8 quotes“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.”
Dorothy Parker
8 quotes“Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.”
Henry Kissinger
7 quotes“Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.”
Rodney Dangerfield
7 quotes“I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.”
Ronald Reagan
6 quotes“You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.”