Will Rogers Quotes - Page 20

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• I make a living off (politicians), so I can't knock 'em. Every time we elect some fellow we think he's terrible and then when we get another one in he's worse. So, I am always in favor of keeping the one we've got and let the other go.

  Will Rogers

  Thinking, Ems, Favors

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• There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always put a little extra on you for Petty, which is kind of a fine for stupidness.

  Will Rogers

  Eye, Law, Two

  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's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

  Will Rogers

  Education, Gambling, Film

  Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949) ch. 6

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• After seeing kids play polo against big guys, it only shows that horses are the greatest equalizer in the world. No matter what you weigh, the little fellow is your equal on a horse.

  Will Rogers

  Horse, Kids, Play

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• Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.

  Will Rogers

  Political, Taste, Election

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

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• I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Years, My Birthday

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• When you have helped to raise the standard of cooking, you have helped to raise the only thing in the world that really matters. We only have one or two wars in a lifetime, but we have three meals a day -- there's nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating.

  Will Rogers

  War, Two, Cooking

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• Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

  Will Rogers

  Strangers And Friends, Just Friends, Mets

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• Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.

  Will Rogers

  Political, Amusement, Politics

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

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• Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.

  Will Rogers

  Long, Rumor, May

  Will Rogers, Steven K. Gragert, Judy G. Buckholz, Oklahoma State University, Will Rogers Memorial Commission (1974). “The Writings of Will Rogers”

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• Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks.

  Will Rogers

  Agriculture, Clubs, Association

  Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

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• Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

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  Country, Space, Worry

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• Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it's not to his horsemanship.

  Will Rogers

  Horse, Accomplishment, Bravery

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• If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.

  Will Rogers

  Trying, Digging, Holes

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• It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.

  Will Rogers

  Government, Taxes Funny, Pay

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• That's one thing about Republican Presidents. They never went in much for plans. They only had one plan. It says "Boys, my head is turned. Just get it while you can.

  Will Rogers

  Boys, President, Republican

  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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• All one has to do to get one's stuff in the Congressional Record is to find a stenographer that can stay awake long enough to take it down. Then you mark in the 'Applause' and 'Laughter' parts yourself.

  Will Rogers

  Laughter, America, Long

  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.57, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. Machinery is doing just fine. If it can't kill you, it will put you out of work.

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  Want, Killing, Machinery

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• Andrew Jackson was the first one to think up the idea to promise everybody that if they will vote for you, you will give them an office when you get it, and the more times they vote for you, the bigger the office.

  Will Rogers

  Thinking, Ideas, Giving

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• Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.

  Will Rogers

  Driven, Certain, Fanaticism

  Will Rogers (1927). “There's not a bathing suit in Russia & other bare facts”

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• It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Littles, Great Depression

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• Why one Ad is worth more to a paper than 40 Editorials.

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  Paper, Advertising, Forty

  "The Illiterate Digest".

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• But we can't alibi all our ills by just knocking the old banker. First he loaned the money, then the people all at once wanted it back, and he didn't have it. Now he's got it again, and is afraid to loan it, so the poor devil don't know what to do.

  Will Rogers

  Business, People, Devil

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

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• There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

  Will Rogers

  Wisdom, Fire, Politics

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• Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt... all just to make some easy money quick.

  Will Rogers

  Gambling, Debt, Great Depression

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