Will Rogers quotes - page 8

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. (Will Rogers)
I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father." View quote
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Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. View quote
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If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress. View quote
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If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. View quote
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He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone. View quote
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The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer. View quote
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Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs. View quote
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Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln. View quote
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The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it. View quote
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It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. (Will Rogers)
The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich. View quote
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Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word. View quote
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There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign dealings are an open book, generally a check book. View quote
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I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it. View quote
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Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. View quote
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When an Okie moves to California, he raises the IQ of both states. View quote
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That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election. View quote
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I bet you if I had met him [Trotsky] and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I didn't like. View quote
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If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress? View quote
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The chances are telling the truth is what got him there. (Will Rogers)
Humanity is not yet ready for either real truth or real harmony. View quote
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Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it. View quote
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See they conducted experiments on convicts. View quote
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It would wreck the very foundation on which our political government is run ... If you ever injected truth into politics you'd have no politics. View quote
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