"If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds……" — Will Rogers
"If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes."
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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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More Acres Quotes
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one of 122 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and…
— Samuel Beckett
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My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four…
— Dave Brubeck
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It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.
— Betty Buckley
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It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which…
— Dick Cheney
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Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can…
— George A. Sheehan
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And in this battle, Brother William (Guillaume), Master of the Templars, lost an eye; and he had lost the other…
— Jean de Joinville
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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
— Red Auerbach
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Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives…
— Orison Swett Marden
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That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have…
— Camille Flammarion
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It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.
— Keith Preston
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