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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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We cuss Congress, and we joke about 'em, but they are all good fellows at heart, and if they wasn't in Congress, why, they would be doing something else against us that might be even worse.
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With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.
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I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is - they like to run their own business. I know men that would -make my wife a better husband than I am but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em.
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I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.
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You see, in Washington they have these bodies, Senate and the House of Representatives. That is for the convenience of the visitors. If there is nothing funny happening in one, there is sure to be in the other, and in case one body passes a good bill, why, the other can see it in time and kill it.
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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.
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There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set.
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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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Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.
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After seeing kids play polo against big guys, it only shows that horses are the greatest equalizer in the world. No matter what you weigh, the little fellow is your equal on a horse.
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Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.
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It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.
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All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
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If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.
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Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead.
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