Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
A fool and his money are soon elected.
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
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.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.