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Why Quotes by George Carlin
- Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to…
- If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?
- Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?
- And this should go without saying. That's why I'm going to say it: Drinking and driving don't mix. Do your drinking early in the morning…
- If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side?
- Why do they bother saying "raw sewage"? Do some people actually cook that stuff?
- I don't understand why prostitution is illegal, Selling is legal, f***ing is legal. So why isn't it legal to sell f***ing? Why should it be…
- Why do they bother with a suicide watch when someone is on death row? "Keep an eye on this guy. We're gonna kill him, and…
- You know why we're good at it? Because we get a lot of practice. This country is only 200 years old, and already we've had…
- Why is there so much controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who would be willing to test any drug they could come…
- Why should it be illegal to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away?
- Let me get a sip of water here...you figure this stuff is safe to drink? Actually, I don't care, I drink it anyway. You know…
- Valentine's Day is devoted to love. Why don't we have a day devoted to hatred? The raw, visceral hatred that is felt every hour of…
- Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?
- Why is it called 'after dark' when it really is 'after light'?
- If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?
- Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard
- How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelet? Are we so much better than chickens all of…
- Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?
- Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
- Why are a 'wise man' and a 'wiseguy' opposites?
- Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?
- If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?…
- That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.
- If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff?
More Why Quotes
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. — Frank Abagnale
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very… — Bashar al-Assad
- What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they… — David Attenborough
- The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to… — David Attenborough
- It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying… — David Attenborough
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood