"Civilization has taught us to eat with a……" — Will Rogers
"Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers."
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622 Quotes by Will Rogers
Will Rogers has 622 quotes on this site.
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The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to…
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The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back
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So the question rises: How much liberty can you get away with? Well, you get no more liberty than you…
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No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend;…
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A fool and his money are soon elected.
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She was so ugly she could make a mule back away from an oat bin.
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Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have…
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I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries,…
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There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.
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The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.
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Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.
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Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the…
— Margaret Atwood
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push…
— Irving Babbitt
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Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
— Richard Bach
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that…
— Edward Abbey
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
— L. Frank Baum
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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
— Jane Addams
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by…
— Ambrose Bierce
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