Will Rogers quotes
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“A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.”
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“Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.”
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“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.”
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“The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.”
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“Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.”
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“Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.”
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“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.”
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“When a party can't think of anything else they always fall back on Lower Taxes. It has a magic sound to a voter, just like Fairyland is spoken of and dreamed of by all children. But no child has ever seen it; neither has any voter ever lived to see the day when his taxes were lowered. Presidents have been promising lower taxes since Washington crossed the Delaware by hand in a row boat. But our taxes have gotten bigger and their boats have gotten larger until now the President crosses the Delaware in his private yacht.”
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“The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.”
-- Will RogersSource : Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield
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“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”
-- Will RogersSource : In Saturday Review 25 Aug. 1962
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“We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.”
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“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”
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“The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.”
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“Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.”
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“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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“Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.”
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“When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.”
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“The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back”
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“It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.”
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“You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.”
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“It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.”
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“Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.”
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“We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.”
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“People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.”
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“An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.”
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“Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.”
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“Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.”
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“There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.”
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“People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.”
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“Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.”
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“We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.”
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“We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.”
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“Don't just grab at the first thing that comes along. Know when to refuse something that won't get you anywhere”
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“The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.”
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“Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.”
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“If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.”
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“The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.”
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“There is not a better day in the world to be spent than with a lot of wise old cowmen around barbecued beef, black coffee and good free holy beans.”
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“If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.”
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“More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.”
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“You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one”
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“Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.”
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“The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands.”
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“You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.”
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“You must never tell a thing. You must illustrate it. We learn through the eye and not the noggin.”
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“It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.”
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“No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.”
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“Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.”
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“I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World.”
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“There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing.”
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“Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.”
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“Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!”
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“You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.”
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“A Republican moves slowly. They are what we call conservatives. A conservative is a man who has plenty of money and doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't always have plenty of money. A Democrat is a fellow who never had any, but doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't have some.”
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“Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.”
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“An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.”
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“Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.”
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“The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.”
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“This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.”
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“The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'”
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“What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.”
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“If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?”
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“The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.”
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“Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.”
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“Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.”
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“People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.”
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“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.”
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“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”
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“I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.”
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“My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.”
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“Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.”
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“Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.”
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“People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.”
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“Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.”
-- Will RogersSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.”
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“Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.”
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“About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.”
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“The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.”
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“A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.”
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“I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.”
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“I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.”
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“In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell”
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“Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.”
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“The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.”
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“When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.”
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“You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.”
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“A vision, without a plan, is just a hallucination.”
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“An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.”
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“A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.”
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“Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.”
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“There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.”
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“All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.”
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“When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.”
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