Top ten recent quotes from Will Rogers (were he alive today)
Published September 25th, 2008
9. “If Thomas Edison knew what folks were doin’ with the lights out he would never have made the ‘off’ switch.”
8. “I can’t help but notice that the folks who tell us that high gas prices are good for us always seem to either live on the bus line or drive a government car.”
7. “I can’t tell if the warm weather these days is ‘cause it’s Indian summer or just more hot air from the politicians.”
6. “I read where the biggest health problem poor folks have in America is obesity. I wish I coulda been poor enough to eat good when I was growin’ up.”
5. “There’s a lot of caterwaulin’ about biofuels these days. They’re natural, they say. We grow it, put it in our cars and head off down the road. My granpappy used biofuels. Corn and grass. He fed it to his horses.”
4. “I can always tell when a politician is lying… that’s ‘cause he’s always lying.”
3. “I’ll take a horse over a computer any day. Horses speed up when you smack ‘em.”
2. “The Congress says they’re the ones to fix the mortgage mess. That just don’t seem right to me. It would be like the dog with feathers on his chin telling you how to build a better chicken coop.”
1. “I wouldn’t mind bailing out all these companies if they just made the fellers who put the holes in the boat get out and swim home.”
1September 28th, 2008 at 10:18 am
I was thinking of channeling George Carlin next … then again, maybe that wouldn’t be a good idea.
Not exactly “family-friendly.”