Notable Quotes
“I was born on election day but never was able to get elected to anything.
I am going to jump out some day and be indefinite enough about everything that they will call me a politician,
then run on a platform of question marks, and be elected unanimously.”
— Will Rogers,
from Weekly Articles
“Best doctor in the world is a veterinarian. He can’t ask his patients what’s the matter. He’s just got to know.”
— Will Rogers
“Every Candidate always says, ‘Why there is dozens of men and women that is more competent to fill this office than I am.’
Well I don’t feel that way about it at all. For after all, it’s only the office of Candidate that I am accepting.
You know it don’t take near as good a man to be a Candidate as it does to hold the office.
That’s why we wisely defeat more than we elect.”
— Will Rogers
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”
— Winston Churchill
“Everything is changing in America.
People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.”
— Will Rogers
“However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.”
— Winston Churchill
“He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”
— St. Francis of Assisi
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns,
or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
— Abraham Lincoln
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
— Thomas Sowell
“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance.
It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”
— John D. Rockefeller
“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country.
I make up for lost time when I come home.”
— Winston Churchill
“Don’t rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.”
— Andy Rooney
“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”
— Lee Iaccoca
“I once sent a dozen of my friends and associates a telegram saying, ‘Flee at once—all is discovered!’
They all left town immediately.”
— Mark Twain
“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated
can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.”
— Muhammad Ali
1942 – 2016