Quotes from Will Rogers:
 
Money and women are the most sought after and the least known of any two
things we have.
 
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing - and that was
the closest our country has ever been to being even.
 
Government spending?  I don't know what it's all about.  I don't know any
more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't
know much.
 
There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and
family.  But he can't make a living for them *and* his government, too,
the way his government is living.  What the government has got to do is
live as cheap as the people.
 
Baseball is a skilled game.  It's America's game - it, and high taxes.
 
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year
with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
 
I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes.  I hope
they do get 'em lowered down enough so people can afford to pay 'em.
 
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than
golf has.
 
On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only
nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter
what it does.
 
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't
they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning
anything?  If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five
years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
 
People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible.
 
Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches.
 
I see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neigbors to
the south.  We could never understand why Mexico wasn't just crazy about
us; for we have always had their good will, and oil and minerals, at
heart.
 
I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is; they like to
run their own business.  I know men that would make my wife a better
husband than I am; but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em.
 
What's the matter with the world?  Why, there ain't but one thing wrong
with every one of us - and that's "selfishness."
 
Why don't somebody print the truth about our present economic condition?
We spent years of wild buying on credit, everything under the sun, whether
we needed it or not, and now we are having to pay for it, howling like a
pet coon.  This would be a great world to dance in of we didn't have to
pay the fiddler.
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                          Redundant Phrases
                  The REVISED Canonical List
 
AC current/DC current
Adequate enough
advance notice
ATM machine
at this moment in time
cash money
central core
classic tradition
completely full
component parts
consensus of opinion
cooperate together
DAT tape
dead corpse
dive down
DOS operating system
empirical observations
endorse a check on the back
equal halves
exact same
FAT table
final conclusion
foot pedals
footsteps
foreign imports
fratrnity brother
free choice
free gifts
fully conscious
fundamental principles
genuine original
good sex
hot steam
Hot water heater
I heard it with my own ears.
Illegal crime
IRA account
ISBN number
Jewish bar mitzvah
lazy bum
LCD display
Lecture phrase: "If you're sitting here tonight...."
major significance
MIDI interface
mad rapist
modern issues of today
most unique
new baby
NIT tournament
"No Trespassing Without Permission"  (seen at many airports)
old antiques
"Open 7 days a week and weekends"
O-Ring
pair of twins
past history
PIN number
pizza pie
please RSVP
postal phrase: "if you get this letter...."
puppy dog
RAM memory
random chance
reiterate (the word iterate means repeat)
repeat again   (in the same vein)
SAT test
seen by the eyes of...
shrimp scampi
6 AM in the morning
skilled craftsman
software program
terrible tragedy
the third "D" on every CD recording code
totally destroyed
totally independent
true facts
tuna fish
12 Noon/12 Midnight
united coalition
UPC code
young child