Jan 302010
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- Most politicians are little more than frustrated actors -- too stupid for radio and too ugly for TV. Monty Pelerin
- In economics, things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could. Rudiger Dornbusch
- I am proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is – I could be just as proud for half the money. Arthur Godfrey
- ... I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other. Benjamin Franklin
- The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. John Kenneth Galbraith
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So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers
The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
Will Rogers
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
Will Rogers
The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.
Will Rogers
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
Will Rogers
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
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
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 is the president?"
Will Rogers
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will Rogers
The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Will Rogers
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Will Rogers
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
Will Rogers
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Will Rogers
The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
Will Rogers
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Will Rogers
The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
Will Rogers
The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
Will Rogers
The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.
Will Rogers
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. Will Rogers
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Thanks for adding the “Favorites”. Your archiving of these gives me the chance to go back to some I would’ve missed in the bustle of everyday activities.