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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
[Action]
 

Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth. ... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.
 

Everyone is ignorant, only in different subjects.
[Ignorance]
 

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
 

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
 

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
 

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
 

Go out on a limb - that's where the fruit is.
[Risks]
 

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
 

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
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Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
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I am a peace man. I haven't got any use for wars and there is no more humor in 'em than there is reason for 'em.
 

I am just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I have been is because I have stayed an old country boy.
 

I am not a member of any organized party - I am a Democrat.
[Politicians]
 

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
 

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."
 

I bet you if I had met him and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I didn't like.
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I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.
 

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.
 

I don't know what humor is.
[Ignorance]
 


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