Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Quote by Will Rogers
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
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Will Rogers Quotes
- This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
- Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
- People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
- Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
- The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
- The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
- Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
- Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
- Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Best Quotes
- Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.
- Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
- Music is my religion.
- We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.
- The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
- There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch.
- A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
- I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
- It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
- I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.