Quote (#573)

"We are here to add what we can to life,
not to get what we can from life."
- William Osler

"The right to swing my fist ends
where the other man’s nose begins."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)

"The Romans would never have found time to conquer the
world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin."
- Heinrich Heine

"I respect faith, but doubt is
what gets you an education."
- Wilson Mizner

"Never ascribe to malice that which can
adequately be explained by incompetence."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"If Stupidity got us into this mess,
then why can’t it get us out?"
- Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Quotes (#469)

"I never expected to see the day when girls would
get sunburned in the places they now do."
- Will Rogers

Don't worry about the splinter in the other
guy's eye when you have a 2x4 in your own!
- Pastor Romaine,
Calvary Chapel, Costa Mesa, CA

Men are not prisoners of fate, but
only prisoners of their own mind.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment
when we realize we have discovered a friend.
- William Rotsler

Little deeds of kindness,
Little words of love
Help to make earth happy
Like the heavens above.
- Julia Carney

There are only two lasting bequests we can
hope to give our children. One of these
is roots, the other, wings.
- Hodding Carter

Quotes (#468)

Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabbinic saying

Never fear shadows. They simply mean
there's a light shining somewhere nearby.
- Ruth E. Renkel

Even if you're on the right track, you'll
get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers

Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to
sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers

"This country has come to feel the same when Congress
is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer."
- Will Rogers

"I belong to no organized
party. I am a Democrat."
- Will Rogers

Quotaria

"If voting changed anything,
they'd make it illegal."
- Emma Goldman

"Your life story would not make
a good book. Don't even try."
- Fran Lebowitz

Women complain about premenstrual syndrome,
but I think of it as the only time of the
month that I can be myself.
- Roseanne

When it's a question of money,
everybody is of the same religion.
- Voltaire

You can't say that civilization don't
advance, however, for in every war
they kill you in a new way.
- Will Rogers

No one can have a higher opinion
of him than I have, and I think
he's a dirty little beast.
- W. S. Gilbert

Quotaria

‘The trouble with life isn't that there is no
answer, it's that there are so many answers.’
- Ruth Benedict

"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this
notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be
fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any."
- Russell Baker

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the
government and report the facts."
- Will Rogers

"A James Cagney love scene is one
where he lets the other guy live."
- Bob Hope

"I know I am getting better at golf because
I am hitting fewer spectators."
- Gerald R. Ford

Even he, to whom most things that most
people would think were pretty smart were
pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.
- Douglas Adams

Quotaria

"Whoever is happy will
make others happy too."
- Anne Frank

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you
have the whole government working for you."
- Will Rogers

"Writing well mean never having to
say, 'I guess you had to be there.'"
- Jef Mallett

"Times have not become more violent.
They have just become more televised."
- Marilyn Manson

"Art is science made clear."
- Jean Cocteau

"Somewhere, something incredible
is waiting to be known."
- Carl Sagan

Quotes

"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."
- Will Rogers

"Men, it has been well said, think in
herds; it will be seen that they go
mad in herds, while they only recover
their senses slowly, and one by one."
- Charles Mackay

"The greatest of faults, I should
say, is to be conscious of none."
- Thomas Carlyle

"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which
is a serviceable substitute for wit."
- W. Somerset Maugham

Until you've lost your reputation, you
never realize what a burden it was.
- Margaret Mitchell

My definition of a free society is a society
where it is safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Quotes - Will Rogers

"The only time people dislike gossip
is when you gossip about them."
- Will Rogers

Communism is like prohibition, it's
a good idea but it won't work.
- Will Rogers

"You know everybody is ignorant,
only on different subjects."
- Will Rogers

Even if you're on the right track, you'll
get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same
wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
- Will Rogers

"An ignorant person is one who doesn't
know what you have just found out."
- Will Rogers

Quotaria

"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience.
Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."
- Hal Borland

"Freedom means the opportunity to be
what we never thought we would be."
- Daniel J. Boorstin

I am a leader by default, only because
nature does not allow a vacuum.
~ Bishop Desmond Tutu

"When everyone is against you,
it means that you are absolutely
wrong-- or absolutely right."
- Albert Guinon

"The future has a way of
arriving unannounced."
- George Will

"Nothing you can't
spell will ever work."
- Will Rogers