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Will Rogers Quotes

«In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell»
Author: Will Rogers | About: Eyes | Keywords: estate, real estate
«My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me. Of course, the mother I know the most about is the mother of our little group. She has been for 22 years trying to raise to maturity four children, three by birth and one by marriage. While she hasn't done a good job, the poor soul has done all that mortal human could do with the material she had to work with.»
Author: Will Rogers | Keywords: by birth, maturity, Old Course
«A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.»
«A comedian can only last 'til he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.»
«A diplomat is one that says something that is equally misunderstood by both sides, and never clear to either.»
Author: Will Rogers
«We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory»
Author: Will Rogers | Keywords: party
«You shake a slogan at an American and it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone.»
«If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.»
Author: Will Rogers | About: Commerce | Keywords: cheaper, dumped, dumping, sells
«Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out»
«The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.»
Author: Will Rogers | About: Politics | Keywords: admit, observe, party, party politics, politics