New York Times, 23. Dezember 1929
Original engl.: "You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way."
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„Alles ist lustig, solange es jemand Anderem passiert.“
Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince"
Original engl.: "Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else."
„Jeder ist ein Ignorant, nur bei unterschiedlichen Themen.“
New York Times, 31. August 1924
Original engl.: "You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."
„Kommunismus ist wie Prohibition - eine gute Idee, aber es funktioniert nicht.“
Weekly Articles (1981), erstmals veröffentlicht 1927
Original engl.: "Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work."
„Ich mache keine Witze. Ich beobachte nur die Regierung und berichte Tatsachen.“
Saturday Review, 25. August 1962
Original engl.: "I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
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“When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.”
Variante: If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
“Diplomacy is the same as saying "nice doggie" until you have a chance to pick up a rock.”
Attributed to Francis Rodman, in volume 64 of The Reader's digest (1954)
Other variants also attributed to Wynn Catlin in Kiss Me Hardy : Quotations Ancient and (Very) Modern (1982) by Roger Kilroy; and to Winston Churchill by Dick Applegate in a speech reprinted in Volume 75 of "The Carpenter" (1955)
Misattributed
“We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.”
As quoted in The Complete Speaker's Index to Selected Stories for Every Occasion (1967) by Jacob Morton Braude, p. 16
Variant: We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 240
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Variante: We all can't be heroes, for someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Daily Telegram #1172, Will Rogers Sees No Value In All The Time We Save (28 April 1930)
Daily telegrams
“An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.”
As quoted in You Must Remember This (1975) by Walter Wagner, p. 175
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“Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.”
As quoted in The Quotable Will Rogers (2006) by Joseph H. Carter
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“I am not a member of any organized party — I am a Democrat.”
Variants: I don't belong to an organized political party. I'm a Democrat.
I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
Quelle: Will Rogers, Ambassador of Good Will, Prince of Wit and Wisdom (1935), Ch. 9 "Rogers was a lifelong Democrat but he studiously avoided partisanship. He contributed to the Democratic campaign funds, but at the same time he frequently appeared on benefit programs to raise money for the Republican treasury. Republican leaders sought his counsel in their campaigns as often as did the Democrats." ~ P. J. O'Brien
“Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.”
As quoted in The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations (1998) by Connie Robertson
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“There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.”
As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 524
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“What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.”
As quoted in Creative Leadership : Mining the Gold in Your Workforce (1998) by A. S. Migs Damiani, p. 168
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“Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.”
As quoted in Land in America : Its Value, Use, and Control (1981) by Peter M. Wolf, p. 6
Unsourced variant: Buy land, they aren't making any more of it.
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