Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

When you straddle a thing it takes a long time to explain it.

Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.

Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works.

Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.

A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

Sometimes people deserve a high five, in the face, with a chair.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

There is nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating

The only thing that can stop hair from falling ... is the floor.

She was so ugly she could make a mule back away from an oat bin.

I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

You got to do more than just live in the country to be a Farmer.

Labor leaders don't do much laboring after they are able to lead.

If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.

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

We are all ignorant. We are just ignorant about different things.

America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

People learn more from observation that they do from conversation.

The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.

The man who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing.

Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.

Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean it's common practice.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

You know you've got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.

Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.

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

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

We live in an age of 'urge'. We do nothing till somebody shoves us.

If you don't have malice in our heart, it doesn't come across harsh.

They are each good when they are out, and each bad when they are in.

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

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

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