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Will Rogers
1879-1935. Full name William Penn Adair Rogers, American humorist.
categories: Peace and War -:- Science and Technology
categories: Memory -:- Truth and Falsity
categories: Envy -:- Richness and Money
4. "There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
categories: Authority, Government -:- Wit and Humor
5. "The United States never lost a war or won a conference."
categories: History and Nations -:- Politics and Diplomacy
6. "The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them."
categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Various
7. "The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has."
source: "The Illiterate Digest"
categories: Richness and Money
8. "Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat."
categories: Richness and Money
9. "Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week."
categories: Peace and War -:- Politics and Diplomacy
10. "Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators."
categories: Politics and Diplomacy
categories: History and Nations
12. "Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."
categories: Life and Death -:- Manners and Ethics
13. "It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human."
categories: Human
14. "I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago."
categories: Marriage -:- Success and Fame
15. "I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
categories: Authority, Government -:- Wit and Humor
16. "Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is."
categories: Bravery and Fear
17. "Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else."
source: "Illiterate Digest"
categories: Egoism -:- Manners and Ethics
categories: Politics and Diplomacy -:- Wit and Humor
19. "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock."
categories: Politics and Diplomacy
20. "Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation."
source: "Wit and Wisdom"
categories: Politics and Diplomacy
21. "Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work."
categories: Politics and Diplomacy
22. "An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh."
categories: Nature and Animals
categories: Various
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