Will Rogers quote: "There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin’. The few who learn by observation. <br />The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a ta...
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Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it...
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One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
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It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
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Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
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Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
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There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
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I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk ...
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There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoir...
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Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.
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Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something ...
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A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at...
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Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people th...
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Lord, let me live until I die.
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Things will get better -- despite our efforts to improve them.
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In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in...
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When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.
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Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
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You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one
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The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meet...
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Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you do not know when it is through if you are a croo...
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If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.
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Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell i...
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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
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That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.
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Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
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Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse t...
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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
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The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every mor...
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Our Constitution protects aliens, drunks, and U.S. senators.
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I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes. I hope they do get 'em lowered enoug...
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House an...
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America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
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There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
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America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
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Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You bein...
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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every ...
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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
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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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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was s...
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I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Iv...
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When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked abo...
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The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live o...
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Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.
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It costs ten times more to govern that it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.
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So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fe...
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Maybe ain't ain't so correct, but I notice that lots of folks who ain't using ain't ain't eating.
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When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like a...
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Alice falls down the rabbit hole and her dress poofs up like a parachute] Alice: Well, after this I ...
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We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business
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I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big na...
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We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by
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Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook ...
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It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
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The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.
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It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so
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I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.
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We can get mighty rich, but if we haven't got any friends, we will find we are poorer than anybody.
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I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.
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The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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There is only one thing that can kill the movies, and that is education. . . . Some say, what is the...
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Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk...
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The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.
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He can take a batch of words and scramble them together and leaven them properly with a hunk of orat...
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It was the luckiest thing that ever happened to me. Betty is to blame for it all. Whatever I am or h...
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Money, horse racing and women, three things the boys just can't figure out.
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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
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The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
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When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like a...
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After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a ...
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I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight ...
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That's what makes us a great nation. We take the little things serious, and the big ones as a joke.
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If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are ...
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Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.
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A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth
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Once a man holds public office he is absolutely no good for honest work.
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It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for
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Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
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A fanatic is always the fellow on the opposite side.
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Maybe ain't ain't so correct, but I notice that lots of folks who ain't using ain't ain't eating.
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The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigg...
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If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"
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Gentlemen, you have just been listening to that Chinese sage, On Too long
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In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
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We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
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We have the best Congress money can buy.
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So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the familiy parrotto the town gossip.
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We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring 'em to make good.
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Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.
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Mayor Scott and I go to the same church. He's a friend of mine ... I just think I can provide strong...
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This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
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Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.
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I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like.
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When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise 'em. That's statesman...
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There are two things that can disrupt the American economy. One is a war. The other is a meeting of ...
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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the be...
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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
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We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
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The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
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Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutio...
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
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Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoymen...
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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
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The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
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Compared to them I
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There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can ne...
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Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.
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The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die.
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We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
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The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
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There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are to finishing it. You take Diplomac...
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Communism is like Prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work
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Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting ...
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Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf.
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The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
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Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people th...
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You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
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I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child a...
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
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An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
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Andrew Jackson was the first one to think up the idea to promise everybody that if they will vote fo...
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There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are ...
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Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
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We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
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I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his own money.
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An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
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Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game -- it, and high taxes.
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The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a ta...
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You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
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Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they do...
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There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The ...
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Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
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When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds
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All I know is what I read in the papers.
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An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
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There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
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I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight ...
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One third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two thirds provide
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If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are ...
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That's what makes us a great nation. We take the little things serious, and the big ones as a joke.
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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.
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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
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If you ever injected truth into politics, you would have no politics.
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I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this -- no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have pa...
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Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
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Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.
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Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.
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If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion...
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Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out
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Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
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People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing
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Invest in inflation. It's the only thing going up.
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You don't know how excited he was about that -- he was in the United States on his 21st birthday.
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Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of anima...
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Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth
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People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument
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In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.
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The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the ...
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You shake a slogan at an American and it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone.
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You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.
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I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheis...
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We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.
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I am not a member of any organized party - I am a Democrat
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A man that don't love a horse, there is something the matter with him.
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The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office
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In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.
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The minute a thing is long and complicated it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em ...
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Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat.
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Never miss a chance to shut up
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I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage...
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The best doctor in the world is a veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter -- he's...
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An economist is a man that can tell you . . . what can happen under any given condition, and his gue...
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I don't know what humor is. Anything that's funny -- tragedy or anything, it don't make no differenc...
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Everyone is ignorant – but on different issues.
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I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big na...
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One third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two thirds provide
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I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this -- no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have pa...
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I am a Cherokee and it's the proudest little possession I ever hope to have.
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Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have
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Things will get better despite our efforts to improve them
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Nowadays it is about as big a crime to be dumb as it is to be dishonest.
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The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever hear...
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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life tryi...
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If they really want to honor the boys, why don't they let them sit in the stands and have the people...
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A comedian can only last 'til he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.
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The movies enable an actor not only to act but also to sit down in the theater and clap for himself
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You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible; and secondly, ...
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Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it...
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If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, a...
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The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little edu...
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There is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. Yo...
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While the Republicans are smart enough to make money, the Democrats are smart enough to get into off...
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And the thing about my jokes is, they don't hurt anybody. You can take 'em or leave 'em - you can sa...
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A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet.
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There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin’. The few who learn by observation.
The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

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There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin’. The few who learn by observation.
The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

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There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin’. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

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There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin’. The few who learn by observation.
The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.