Will Rogers - People Quotes

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The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the President has to tell 'em.

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We were primitive people when I was a kid. There were only a mighty few known diseases. Gunshot wounds, broken legs, toothache, fits, and anything that hurt you from the lower end of your neck down was known as a bellyache.

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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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People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible

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There is a terrible lot of us who don't think that we come from a monkey, but if there are some people who think that they do, why, it's not our business to rob them of what little pleasure they might get out of imagining it.

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I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes-I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em

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I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.

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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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I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else... I was not a Child Prodigy, because a Child Prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.

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You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

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Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.

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We are always telling 'em [young people] what we used to not do. We didn't do it because we didn't think of it. We did everything we could think of.

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This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read.

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The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make one out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a Crook or a Martyr.

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Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word.

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I don't know how a lot of these other nations have existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show 'em how to be pure and good like us.

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Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

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Your doctor bill should be paid like your income tax, according to what you have. There is nothing that keeps poor people poor as much as paying doctor bills.

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The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

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People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

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It's awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.

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Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it has fallen in the hands of Mr. Rockefeller, who will take care of it and see it has a good home and never be allowed to wander around unprotected again. There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.

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People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

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Us ignorant people laugh at spiritualists, but when they die, they go mighty peaceful and happy.

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I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain amount of class that the cheap thing can never approach; in the long run it's the higher-priced things that are the cheapest.

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People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

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Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience more people, stop more traffic, cause more accidents, entail more expense, and commit and cause I don't remember the other hundred misdemeanors.

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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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A king can stand people's fighting, but he can't last long if people start thinking.

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If a bank fails in China, they behead the men at the top of it that was responsible... If we beheaded all of ours that were responsible for bank failures, we wouldn't have enough people left to bury the heads.

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