"I bet you, if I had met..." - Quote by Will Rogers

“The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.”

“It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.”

“There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.”

“Paper has more patience than people.”

“If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer”

“Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!”

“A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness.”

“I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personalrelations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words. For persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.”

“Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.”