It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
Quote by Will Rogers
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It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
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Will Rogers Quotes
- 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.
- Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
- Politics is applesauce.
- It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
- I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
- A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- 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.
- The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
- The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
- Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Best Quotes
- In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened everything in America was being questioned.
- Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
- It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.
- I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.
- The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
- It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.
- Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
- We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
- I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.
- No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.