Will Rogers Quotes - Page 21

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• If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending when we didn't have it put us where we are today. Saving when we've got it will get us back to where we was before we went cuckoo.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Dollars, Saving

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• There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable.

  Will Rogers

  Smart, Two, Railroads

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

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• I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain amount of class that the cheap thing can never approach; in the long run it's the higher-priced things that are the cheapest.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Business, Class

  Will Rogers (1977). “Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.

  Will Rogers

  Politics, Vote, Good Humor

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

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• The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal Reserve Bank raises or lowers the amount of interest. Any business that can't survive a one percent change must be skating on thin ice.
  Why even the poor farmer took a raise of another ten percent just to get a loan from the bank, and nobody from the government paid any attention. But you let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help to get them back into bed again.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Wall, Fall

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• You can take any line of business and skill and the ones who do it the best are the ones who get the most money for it.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Skills, Lines

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

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• The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children's playgrounds.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Children, Law

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• You got to do more than just live in the country to be a Farmer.

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  Country, Agriculture, Just Live

  Will Rogers (1977). “Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over that. The Government never has been accused of being a business man.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Men, Worry

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• A Realtor is an old fashioned Real Estate man with a neck tie. A Real Estate man sold you what you wanted, a Realtor sells you what you don't need. A Real Estate man showed you what you could raise on the land, a Realtor tells you what you can build on it.

  Will Rogers

  Real, Men, Land

  Will Rogers (1983). “"How to be funny" & other writings of Will Rogers”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

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• Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.

  Will Rogers

  Want, Causes

  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.200, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.

  Will Rogers

  Equality, Color, Matter

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• When you straddle a thing it takes a long time to explain it.

  Will Rogers

  Long, Politics, Long Time

  Will Rogers (1976). “Convention articles of Will Rogers”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• There will never be a time when the old horse is not superior to any auto ever made.

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  Horse, Made, Superiors

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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.

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  Pregnancy, Ohio, Government

  "How we elect our Presidents". Book by Will Day, p. 9, 1952.

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• I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.

  Will Rogers

  War, Two, Giving

  "Mr. Rogers Has An Idea How Conferences End". Daily Telegram #2159 (syndicated column) on July 05, 1933. "Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Roosevelt years, 1933-1935". Book edited by Steven Gragert and James Smallwood, 2008.

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• Every man is ignorant - just on different subjects.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Ignorant, Different

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• The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.

  Will Rogers

  Government, Dry, Vote

  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.158, Rowman & Littlefield

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• With old inflation riding the headlines, I have read till I am bleary-eyed, and I can't get head from tails of the whole thing. ... Now we are living in an age of explanations-and plenty of 'em, too-but no two things that's been done to us have been explained twice the same way, by even the same man. It's and age of in one ear and out the other.

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  Science, Men, Two

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• America already holds the record for freak movements. Now we have a new one. It's called "Restoring Confidence." Rich men who never had a mission in life outside of watching a stock ticker are working day and night "restoring confidence." Writers are working night shifts, speakers' tables are littered up, ministers are preaching statistics, all on "restoring confidence."

  Will Rogers

  Business, Night, Men

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• We know lots of things we didn't use to know but we don't know any way to prevent 'em from happening.

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  Knowledge, Ems, Use

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• If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned.

  Will Rogers

  Death, Concerned, Jokes

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

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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.

  Will Rogers

  Believe, Years, Crowds

  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.16, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Art, Hurt

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• People are marvelous in their generosity, if they just know the cause is there.

  Will Rogers

  People, Generosity, Causes

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

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