Dont Sweat The Petty Things And

From Brain Droppings (1997). The line is a classic piece of Carlin wordplay, built on the phonetic and semantic mirror between "petty" and "sweaty." It reads like a genuine life-advice aphorism in its first half — a variant on "don't sweat the small stuff" — before the second half reveals itself as a pun. Carlin collected many such double-barrelled aphorisms in Brain Droppings, deliberately mimicking the form of folk wisdom while subverting it.