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A fool and his money are soon elected.
- Will Rogers
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
- Will Rogers
Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
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A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- Will Rogers
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money
they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie"
until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50,
and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
If at first you don't succeed,
try, try, and try again.
Then give up.
There's no use being a damned fool about it.
- W. C. Fields
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak and remove all doubt.
- sometimes attributed to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, or Samuel Johnson
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
- African Proverb
I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.
- Bertrand Russell
The God of Children and Fools:
There once was a man way up high,
who sat on his chair in the sky.
he called down to fool us,
and said he would rule us,
until we woke up bye and bye.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool;
it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens,
you can never regain their respect and esteem.
It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time;
you can even fool some of the people all of the time;
but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
- Abraham Lincoln
The Four Stages of Public Opinion
I (Just after publication): The novelty is absurd
and subversive of Religion and Morality.
The propounder both fool and knave.
II (Twenty years later): The Novelty is absolute Truth
and will yield a full and satisfactory
explanation of things in general -
The propounder a man of sublime genius and perfect virtue.
III (Forty years later): The Novelty won't explain
things in general after all, and therefore is a wretched failure.
The propounder a very ordinary person advertised by a clique.
IV (A century later): The Novelty a mixture of truth and error.
Explains as much as could reasonably be expected.
The propounder worthy of all honor
in spite of his share of human frailties,
as one who has added to the permanent possessions of science.
- Thomas Henry [T. H.] Huxley
A fool is one who goes on trusting;
a fool is one who goes on trusting against all his experience.
You deceive him, and he trusts you;
and you deceive him again, and he trusts you;
and you deceive him again, and he trusts you.
Then you will say that he is a fool, he does not learn.
His trust is tremendous; his trust is
so pure that nobody can corrupt it.
Be a fool in the Taoist sense, in the Zen sense.
Don't try to create a wall of knowledge around you.
Whatsoever experience comes to you,
let it happen, and then go on dropping it.
Go on cleaning your mind continuously;
go on dying to the past so you remain in the present here-now,
as if just born, just a babe.
- Osho
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain
He who marries for love without money
has good nights and sorry days.
- Anonymous
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful,
natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
- Steve Martin
A bank is a place that will lend you money
if you can prove that you don't need it.
- Bob Hope
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
- Abraham Lincoln
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
A lifelong friend is someone
you haven't borrowed money from yet.
- Anonymous
After fifteen minutes I wanted to marry her,
and after half an hour
I completely gave up the idea of stealing her purse.
- the movie Take the Money and Run (1969)
Money often costs too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is usually more careful of his money
than he is of his principles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have the best government that money can buy.
- Mark Twain
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
- Mark Twain
Where large sums of money are concerned,
it is advisable to trust nobody.
- Agatha Christie
New York City is a great monument
to the power of money and greed...
a race for rent.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain
I know that God made the whole world in 4004 BC.
I know because my preacher told me. He's a good man.
He's even saving up all the money we give him
to go to bible college someday.
- Anonymous Humor
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
My life is difficult. I need more money.
- the movie The Expendables (2010)
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man
... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do
every minute of every day. And the invisible man
has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do.
And if you do any of these things,
he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire
and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever,
and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream,
until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you.
He loves you and he needs money.
- George Carlin
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
I think the person who takes a job in order to live -
that is to say, for the money -
has turned himself into a slave.
- Joseph Campbell
I try to give to the poor people for love
what the rich could get for money.
No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds;
yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
- Mother Teresa
A nation that continues year after year
to spend more money on military defense
than on programs of social uplift
is approaching spiritual doom.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Living in fear of anything is a terrible waste
of what could be a great life.
If you live in fear of losing your job,
either you fear the embarrassment of being jobless,
or you fear the loss of material goods -
house, car, and such.
If you live in fear of losing your stuff and money,
it is clear that they own you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The glow of one warm thought
is to me worth more than money.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
- Thomas Jefferson
To have done anything just for money
is to have been truly idle.
- Henry David Thoreau
Maturity is the ability to do a job
whether or not you are supervised,
to carry money without spending it,
and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
- Ann Landers
Do what you love and the money will follow.
- Marsha Sinetar
Priorities - what's really important -
health, and doing what one wants to do -
it's certainly not money.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If money is your hope for independence,
you will never have it.
The only real security that
a man can have in this world
is a reserve of knowledge,
experience and ability.
- Henry Ford
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Do not hire a man who does your work for money,
but him who does it for love of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Money won't create success,
the freedom to make it will.
- Nelson Mandela
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