Will Rogers Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands.

  Will Rogers

  Night, Hands, People

  "And Here's How It All Happened". Syndicated column #518. "Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933". Book by Steven Gragert, 1982.
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  We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.

  Will Rogers

  Punishment, Giving, Police

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

• Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

  Will Rogers

  College, Race, Years

• When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.

  Will Rogers

  Giving, Lessons, Surprise

• You know 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. My only solution would be to keep em both out one term and hire my good friend Henry Ford to run the whole thing, and give him a commission on what he saves us.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Party, Good Friend

  'The Illiterate Digest' (1924) 'Breaking into the Writing Game'

• A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief.

  Will Rogers

  Horse, Reading, Government

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.57, Rowman & Littlefield

• People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Teaching, People

  Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

• It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

  Will Rogers

  Life, Knowledge, Giving

• Congress meets tomorrow morning. Let us all pray: Oh Lord, give us strength to bear that which is about to be inflicted upon us. Be merciful with them, oh Lord, for they know not what they're doing. Amen.

  Will Rogers

  Morning, Giving, Politics

• The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now. Well, there is millions and millions that are not making it, that would be glad to give up 99 per cent if you would let 'em earn a hundred thousand or more.

  Will Rogers

  Giving Up, Long, Ems

• A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

  Will Rogers

  People, Giving, Company

• I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.

  Will Rogers

  War, Two, Giving

  "Mr. Rogers Has An Idea How Conferences End". Daily Telegram #2159 (syndicated column) on July 05, 1933. "Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Roosevelt years, 1933-1935". Book edited by Steven Gragert and James Smallwood, 2008.

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

  Will Rogers

  Giving Up, Men, Europe

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

• One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Land, Giving

• So the question rises: How much liberty can you get away with? Well, you get no more liberty than you give!

  Will Rogers

  Giving, Liberty, Democratic

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

• The good people of Dakota offered to give Calvin Coolidge a farm if he would live on it. I wouldn't advise you to give those people too much credit for generosity. There is not a farmer in any State in the West that wouldn't be glad to give him a farm if he will paint it, fix up the fences and keep up the series of mortgages that are on it. And if you think Coolidge ain't smart, you just watch him not take it.

  Will Rogers

  Real, Smart, Thinking

• Now I am not unpatriotic, and I want to do my bit, so I hereby offer my services to my President, my country and my friends to do anything, outside of serving on a commission, that I can in this great movement. But you will have to give me some idea of where "confidence" is. And just who you want it restored to.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Business, Ideas

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

• The minute you read something and you can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer. Then, if you give it to another lawyer to read and he don't know just what it means, then you can be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. If it's in a few words and is plain, and understandable only one way, it was written by a non-lawyer.

  Will Rogers

  Mean, Giving, Few Words

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover years, 1929-1931”

• I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is - they like to run their own business. I know men that would -make my wife a better husband than I am but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Country, Husband

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364.

  Will Rogers

  Giving, Return, Momma

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

• I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

  Will Rogers

  Generosity, Giving, Charity

• The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights.

  Will Rogers

  Home, Rights, Giving

• Andrew Jackson was the first one to think up the idea to promise everybody that if they will vote for you, you will give them an office when you get it, and the more times they vote for you, the bigger the office.

  Will Rogers

  Thinking, Ideas, Giving

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