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Will Rogers Quotes - Page 17

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If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes.

If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes.

Land, Support, Community

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

The United States investigates everything - usually after it's dead.

America, United States, States

That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.

Election, Trouble, Politician

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

There is nothing that sets a nation back as far in civilization as prosperity.

Civilization, Prosperity, Nations

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

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Funny, Sarcastic, Book

"The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Connie Robertson, 1996.

Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.

Car, Noise

Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?

Ideas, Worthwhile, Good Ideas

Will Rogers (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Roosevelt Years, 1933-1935”

America is the first country where people go to the poor house in their car.

Country, America, People

You have to have a serious streak in you, or you can't see the funny side of the other fellow.

Sides, Serious, Streaks

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

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

Taken, Inspiration, Animal

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

If a bank fails in China, they behead the men at the top of it that was responsible... If we beheaded all of ours that were responsible for bank failures, we wouldn't have enough people left to bury the heads.

Business, Men, People

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is that the Democrat is a cannibal, they live off each other, while the Republicans live off the Democrats.

Humorous, Differences, Political

"Will Rogers Speaks". Over 1000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers And Writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers...,

It's the greatest game I ever saw. You can't lose. Everybody buys to sell and nobody buys to keep. What's worrying me is who is going to be the last owner. It's just like an auction; the only one stuck is the last one.

Real, Games, Worry

Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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.

Running, Government, Years

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

It is not the return on my investment that I am concerned about; it's the return of my investment

Investing, Return, Investment

Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help them back to bed again.

Country, Wall, Bed

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.165, Rowman & Littlefield

Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb

Horse, Cowboy, Dumb

More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.

World, Argument

Will Rogers (1973). “There's Not a Bathing Suit in Russia & Other Bare Facts”

Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.

Civilization, Taught Us, Use

Will Rogers (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Roosevelt Years, 1933-1935”

Everytime a lawyer writes something, he is not writing for posterity, he is writing something so that endless others of his craft can make a living out of trying to figure out what he said. Course perhaps he really haden't said anything, that's what makes it so hard to explain.

Writing, Trying, Crafts

"The Lawyers Talking" (1935)

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Funny, Money, Two

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

Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.

Politics, Trouble, Stamps

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.28, Rowman & Littlefield

There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.

Party, Political, Promotion

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

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Life, Sports, Hero

Quoted in'A RogersThesaurus' inThe Saturday Review, 25 Aug 1962. Another form of the quote appeared in a syndicated newspaper article,15 Feb1925: 'Heroing is one of the shortestlived professions there is'.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

Agriculture, Optimist, Farmers

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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