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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-11-06 11:48 AM
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Some quotes by Will Rogers:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/will_rogers.html

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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
Will Rogers

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
Will Rogers

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
Will Rogers

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
Will Rogers

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
Will Rogers

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Will Rogers

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
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

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
Will Rogers

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.
Will Rogers

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
Will Rogers

....many more
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yellerpup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-11-06 11:52 AM
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1. Gotta kick for my favorite philosopher.
Thanks, kentuck! :kick: :kick:
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Indykatie Donating Member (416 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-11-06 12:02 PM
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2. Thanks for Posting.
I love Will's writing. Another of his timely quotes:

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
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laststeamtrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-11-06 12:13 PM
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3. Another:
"Why are all the people who really seem to know how to run the world either cutting hair or driving a cab?"

Good list, thanks. I love Will Rogers.
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cspanlovr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-11-06 01:14 PM
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4. I really enjoyed reading these, thanks alot!
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bedazzled Donating Member (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-11-06 06:07 PM
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5. i liked, "she speaks, yet like a politician sayeth nothing"
will did his own version of romeo and juliet, and that's romeo's line...
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