Will Rogers citáty

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„I když jedete po správné koleji, můžete přejet, pokud pouze sedíte.“

„Pokud se ocitnete v díře, nejprve ji přestaňte kopat.“

„Někdy se musíte vydat na cestu, protože právě tam se skrývá ovoce.“

„Většina mužů je tak šťastná, jak si usmyslí.“

„I když jste na správné cestě, budete-li jen sedět a čekat, nakonec nikam nedojdete.“

„Nikdy jsem si zvlášť nepotrpěl na knihy, protože v nich trvá moc dlouho, než autor vylíčí barvu očí všech postav.“

„Žijte tak, abyste se nemusel bát prodat vašeho papouška největší drbně ve městě.“

„Nezáleží na tom, koho si člověk bere, protože si může být jist, že druhý den po svatbě to bude někdo jiný.“

„Matka ukazuje dítěti torzo Venuše: "Takhle dopadneš, budeš-li si stále okusovat nehty!"“

„Nebyl jsem zázračným dítětem - to toho umí, když je dítětem, stejně i jako když dospěje.“

„O Němcích mohu říci jedno: vždycky jsou naprosto ochotni dát někomu jinému zemi někoho jiného.“

„Náš problém není v tom, že toho víme málo. Náš problém je, že mnohé z toho, co víme, není pravda.“

„Nedovolte, aby vám včerejší den zabral velkou část dneška.“

„Film je jediný byznys, kde se můžete postavit před sebe a aplaudovat si.“

„Nemůžeš tvrdit, že civilizace nezaznamenává určitý pokrok, neboť v každé další válce tě zabijí novým způsobem.“

„Když Kongres zasedá, zažívá země podobné pocity, jako když vezme novorozeně do ruky kladivo.“

„Nechte inzerenty stejnou částku, jakou vydávají na reklamu, investovat do vylepšení jejich produktu, a nebudou ho muset propagovat.“

„Jediný rozdíl mezi smrtí a daněmi spočívá v tom, že smrt se při každém setkání Kongresu nezhorší.“

“There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.”

“Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.”

“You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.”

“Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364.”

“Most men are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

“Lord, let me live until I die.”

“There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs.”

“The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.”

“The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.”

“There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do is report the facts. I don't even have to exaggerate.”

“Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.”

“That's one thing about Republican Presidents. They never went in much for plans. They only had one plan. It says "Boys, my head is turned. Just get it while you can."”

“Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?”

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

“Letting the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than putting it back.”

“You've got to be optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one.”

“Papers say: "Congress is deadlocked and can't act." I think that is the greatest blessing that could befall this country.”

“This election was lost four and five and six years ago not this year. They dident start thinking of the old common fellow till just as they started out on the election tour. The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover was an engineer. He knew that water trickled down. Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the dryest little spot. But he dident know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands. They saved the big banks but the little ones went up the flue.”

“No party is as bad as its state and national leaders.”

“Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.”

“There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.”

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

“And kid Congress and the Senate, don't scold 'em. They are just children thats never grown up. They don't like to be corrected in company. Don't send messages to 'em, send candy.”

“You've never in your life seen a picture, I bet any one of you, never seen a picture of one of these old Pilgrims praying when they didn't have a gun right by the side of them. That was to see that he got what he was praying for.”

“I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that I've every said, and I used it in the FOLLIES of 1922. I said America has a unique record. We never lost a war and we never won a conference in our lives. I believe that we could without any degree of egotism, single-handed lick any nation in the world. But we can't confer with Costa Rica and come home with our shirts on.”

“Our constitution protects aliens, drunks, and U. S. Senators. There ought to be one day (just one) when there is open season on senators.”

“This would be a great world to dance in if we didn't have to pay the fiddler.”

“I certainly know that [A] comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious and I don't want either of those to happen to me til I am dead”

“We are the first nation to starve to death in a storehouse that's overfilled with everything we want.”