Great Throughts Treasury

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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers

It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something.

Looks | Man | Time | World |

Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers

But we can't alibi all our ills by just knocking the old banker. First he loaned the money, then the people all at once wanted it back, and he didn't have it. Now he's got it again, and is afraid to loan it, so the poor devil don't know what to do.

Better | Learning | Looks |

Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers

I love a dog, he does nothing for political reasons.

Looks | Office |

Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers

It must be nice to belong to some legislative body and just pick money out of the air.

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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers

The fellow sitting off looking at you can tell better how you are doing and what your prospects are than you can yourself.

Faith | Good | Looks | Lord |

Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers

For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.

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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers

Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt, all just to make some money quick.

Looks | Men | Public |

Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers

Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.

Looks | Man | Time | Woman |

Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Looks | Politics |

Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather

One realizes that even in harmonious families there is this double life: the group life, which is the one we can observe in our neighbor’s household, and, underneath, another – secret and passionate and intense – which is the real life that stamps the faces and gives character to the voices of our friends. Always in his mind each member of these social units is escaping, running away, trying to break the net which circumstances and his own affections have woven about him. One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them. In those simple relationships of loving husband and wife, affectionate sisters, children and grandmother, there are innumerable shades of sweetness and anguish which make up the pattern of our lives day by day . . .

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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers

They are having quite an argument over (Treasury Secretary) Mellon's Tax Bill. Mr. Mellon wants to cut the surtax on the rich, and leave it as is on the poor, as there is more poor than rich. I suppose the majority will win.

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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Looks | Politics |

Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers

The one way to detect a feeble-minded man is get one arguing on economics.

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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers

There is one thing in common with all revolutions (in fact they are pretty near like wars in that respect) nobody ever knows what they are fighting about.

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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers

You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.

Friend | Good | Looks | Politics |

Will and Ariel Durant

History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.

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Wilhelm Reich

Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word FREEDOM should ever be more than an empty political slogan.

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