Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
I'm not a real movie star -- I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago. -- Will Rogers | |
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such things as a free variable." | |
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." -- Will Rogers | |
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing - and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even. -- The Best of Will Rogers | |
Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much. -- Will Rogers | |
I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is; they like to run their own business. I know men that would make my wife a better husband than I am; but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em. -- The Best of Will Rogers | |
I might have gone to West Point, but I was too proud to speak to a congressman. -- Will Rogers | |
I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes. I hope they do get 'em lowered down enough so people can afford to pay 'em. -- The Best of Will Rogers | |
I see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neigbors to the south. We could never understand why Mexico wasn't just crazy about us; for we have always had their good will, and oil and minerals, at heart. -- The Best of Will Rogers | |
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. -- The Best of Will Rogers | |
Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches. -- The Best of Will Rogers | |
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers | |
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr. -- Will Rogers | |
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?" -- Will Rogers The vice-presidency ain't worth a pitcher of warm spit. -- Vice President John Nance Garner | |
There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and family. But he can't make a living for them *and* his government, too, the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people. -- The Best of Will Rogers | |
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. -- Will Rogers | |
Why don't somebody print the truth about our present economic condition? We spent years of wild buying on credit, everything under the sun, whether we needed it or not, and now we are having to pay for it, howling like a pet coon. This would be a great world to dance in if we didn't have to pay the fiddler. -- The Best of Will Rogers | |
Will Rogers, having paid too much income tax one year, tried in vain to claim a rebate. His numerous letters and queries remained unanswered. Eventually the form for the next year's return arrived. In the section marked "DEDUCTIONS," Rogers listed: "Bad debt, US Government -- $40,000." | |
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. -- The Best of Will Rogers | |
Maybe ain't ain't so correct, but I notice that lots of folks who ain't using ain't ain't eatin' well. -- Will Rogers | |
I only know what I read in the papers. -- Will Rogers | |
Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes. -- The Best of Will Rogers | |
The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match. -- Will Rogers | |
Things will get better despite our efforts to improve them. -- Will Rogers | |
Will Rogers never met you. | |
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers | |
People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible. -- The Best of Will Rogers | |
What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't but one thing wrong with every one of us -- and that's "selfishness." -- The Best of Will Rogers | |
I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else ... I was not a Child Prodigy, because a Child Prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up. -- Will Rogers | |
With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a joke. -- Will Rogers |