- Will Rogers Pointing
“Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.”
“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”
“If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.”
“I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”
“The quickest way to double your money is to fold it and put it back in your pocket.”
“I’ll bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him “father.””
“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”
“Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.”
“Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.”
“Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.”
“All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.”
“An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.”
“There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.”
“Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even. ”
“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.”
“People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.”
“The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.”
“There ought to be one day – just one – when there is open season on senators.”
“Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?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..”
“We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.”
“There are 2 theories to arguing with a woman…neither works.”
