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Wells Quotes by Will Rogers
- So the question rises: How much liberty can you get away with? Well, you get no more liberty than you give!
- The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat. Well, I can…
- You know Lincoln's famous remark about "God must have loved the common people, because he made so many of them?" Well, you are not going…
- It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.
- It sure did kick up some excitement in the Senate when one Senator called the other Senators 'sons of Wild jackasses.' Well, if you thought…
- Land taxes is the thing. They got so high that there is no chance to make anything. Not only land but all property tax. You…
- President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over that. The Government…
- If your time is worth anything, travel by air. If not, you might just as well walk.
- The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So when a banker…
- We had a great lunch. Senator Capper paid for it. The Republican pays, as usual. And everything that the Democrats are doin' now, the Republicans…
- 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…
- We owe more money than any Nation in the World, and we are LOWERING TAXES. When is the time to pay off a debt if…
- Say did you read in the papers about a bunch of Women up in British Columbia as a protest against high taxes, sit out in…
- Well, another senator rose and said {as they always do} 'Does the gentleman yield?' They always say that - least they call each other 'gentleman'…
- When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.
- Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
More Wells Quotes
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle