Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

Quote by Will Rogers

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If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that...

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that...

Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put...

Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put...

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time...

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time...

The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the...

The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the...

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the...

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the...

Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.

Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till...

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till...

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go...

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go...

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you...

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you...

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be...

You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be...

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be...

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be...

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both...

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both...

Money, horse racing and women, three things the boys just can't figure out.

Money, horse racing and women, three things the boys just can't figure out.

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it...

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it...

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most...

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most...

I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we,...

I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we,...