The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

About Will Rogers

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William Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was a Cherokee-American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorist. He was born as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory, now part of Oklahoma, and is known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son". As an entertainer and humorist, he...

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It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

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

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.

More quotations tagged with “golf”

Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.

—Jimmy Demaret

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

—H. L. Mencken

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

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There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.

—Charles Rosin

Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life.

—Charles Rosin

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