Will Rogers Quotes - Page 16

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• There is a tremendous movement on to get lower taxes on earned incomes. Then will come the real problem, 'Who among us on salary are earning our income?'

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  Real, Salary, Income

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• The deer season just opened. A deer hunter in Ventura Country brought in his first man yesterday.

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  Country, Men, Yesterday

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• I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.

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  Atheist, Winter, Thinking

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• I don't know how a lot of these nations existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show 'em how to be good and pure like us.

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  Long, People, Ems

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• An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.

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  Wisdom, Men, America

  Will Rogers (1983). “Radio broadcasts of Will Rogers”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

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• I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

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  Funny, Sports, Hate

  Quoted in Michael HobbsThe Golf Quotation Book (1992).

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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.

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  Government, Years, Pockets

  Will Rogers, Steven K. Gragert, M. Jane Johansson (2001). “The Papers of Will Rogers: From vaudeville to Broadway : September 1908-August 1915”, p.331, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments.

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  Animal, Long, Water

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Every guy looks in his pocket and then votes.

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  Guy, Pockets, Looks

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• We may elevate ourselves but we should never reach so high that we would every forget those who helped us get there.

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  May, Forget, Should

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians, and I like to watch both of 'em at play, either back home in their native state, or after they've been captured and sent to a zoo, or to Washington.

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  Zoos, Home, Animal

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.150, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There is some talk of lowering (the income tax), and they will have to. People are not making enough to pay it.

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  People, Income, Pay

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.

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  Running, Wall, Government

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

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  Country, Inspiration, Hamilton

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline.

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  Cities, Chicago, Shooting

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.

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  Pain, Uncomfortable Feeling, Feelings

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• When a party can't think of anything else they always fall back on Lower Taxes. It has a magic sound to a voter, just like Fairyland is spoken of and dreamed of by all children. But no child has ever seen it; neither has any voter ever lived to see the day when his taxes were lowered. Presidents have been promising lower taxes since Washington crossed the Delaware by hand in a row boat. But our taxes have gotten bigger and their boats have gotten larger until now the President crosses the Delaware in his private yacht.

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  Children, Fall, Party

  Will Rogers (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for the criminally insane actually read one once clear through. Then he did something about it. He made a bonfire that lasted a week.

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  Men, Presidential, Insane

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• America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it.

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  Business, Opportunity, Land

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like." I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.

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  Reading, Men, Waiting

  "The Will Rogers Book". Book by Paula McSpadden Love, 1972.

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• If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.

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  Mass, Cheaper, Courses

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

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  Political Will, Jail, Independence

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.149, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals

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  Taken, Inspiration, Animal

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover years, 1929-1931”

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• If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.

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  America, Worry, Would Be

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• The Schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

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  Educational, School, Nostalgia

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