Will Rogers - Man Quotes

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Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.

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I bet you, if I had met Trotsky, and had had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I have never yet met a man I didn't like.

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Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.

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A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.

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Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.

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No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.

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It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.

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A Realtor is an old fashioned Real Estate man with a neck tie. A Real Estate man sold you what you wanted, a Realtor sells you what you don't need. A Real Estate man showed you what you could raise on the land, a Realtor tells you what you can build on it.

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Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.

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I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.

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You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.

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Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!

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I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.

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When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I dident like. I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.

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I don't see why a man shouldn't pay an inheritance tax. If a Country is good enough to pay taxes to while you are living, it's good enough to pay in after you die. By the time you die you should be so used to paying taxes that it would just be almost second nature to you.

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Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.

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A conservative is a man who has plenty of money and doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't always have plenty of money.…A Democrat is a fellow who never had any money but doesn't see why he shouldn't have some money.

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Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.

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People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.

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We never will have any prosperity that is free from speculation till we pass a law that every time a broker or person sells something, he has got to have it sitting there in a bucket, or a bag, or a jug, or a cage, or a rat trap, or something, depending on what it is he is selling. We are continually buying something that we never get from a man that never had it.

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If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.

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Re the maxim that the word of a Chinese man is as good as his bond: That might have been in the old days, but not since the missionaries and businessmen come in. Chinese are just as human as anybody now.

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I'll bet you the time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man.

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I joked about every prominent man in my lifetime, but I never met one I didn't like.
Epitaph for himself

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This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.

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It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

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I bet you if I had met him [Trotsky] and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I didn't like.

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A man that don't love a Horse, there is something the matter with him. If he has no sympathy for the man that does love Horses, then there is something worse the matter with him.

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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.

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See they conducted experiments on convicts... I don't know on what grounds they reason a man in jail is a bigger liar than one out of jail... The chances are telling the truth is what got him there... It would be a big aid to humanity, but it will never be, for already the politicians are up in arms against it... It would wreck the very foundation on which our political government is run... If you ever injected truth into politics you'd have no politics … Even the ministers are denouncing it now … Humanity is not yet ready for either real truth or real harmony.

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