WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:11:20 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg appropriations – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Rogers, Will -- Column (1933-02-24), “Daily Telegram” https://wist.info/rogers-will/3309/ https://wist.info/rogers-will/3309/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=3309 The budget is a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, and then tries to reach in and pull real beans out.


Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
Column (1933-02-24), “Daily Telegram”
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