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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
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Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
I'm not a real movie star.
I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
- Will Rogers
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.
- Will Rogers
People are getting smarter nowadays;
they are letting lawyers,
instead of their conscience, be their guide.
- Will Rogers
The movies are the only business where you can go out
front and applaud yourself.
- Will Rogers
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You can't say civilization don't advance...
in every war they kill you in a new way.
- Will Rogers
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
- Will Rogers
Make crime pay.
Become a lawyer.
- Will Rogers
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- Will Rogers
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money
they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot
of money even to be defeated.
- Will Rogers
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
- Will Rogers
A fool and his money are soon elected.
- Will Rogers
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
- Will Rogers
I don't make jokes.
I just watch the government and report the facts.
- Will Rogers
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.
- Will Rogers
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty.
I will belong to the select few.
- Will Rogers
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate,
now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
- Will Rogers
I never expected to see the day when girls would get
sunburned in the places they now do.
- Will Rogers
This country has come to feel the same when Congress
is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
- Will Rogers
If you can build a business up big enough,
it's respectable.
- Will Rogers
There's only one thing that can kill the movies,
and that's education.
- Will Rogers
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie"
until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers
Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
- Will Rogers
It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole
government working for you.
- Will Rogers
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
- Will Rogers
Everything is changing.
People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
- Will Rogers
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living.
That's one thing about a little education.
It spoils you for actual work.
The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
- Will Rogers
An onion can make people cry but there's never been
a vegetable that can make people laugh.
- Will Rogers
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
- Will Rogers
If you want to be successful, it's just this simple.
Know what you are doing.
Love what you are doing.
And believe in what you are doing.
- Will Rogers
Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats.
If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.
- Will Rogers
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.
- Will Rogers
When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
- Will Rogers
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
- Will Rogers
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving
their product that they do on advertising and they
wouldn't have to advertise it.
- Will Rogers
In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast
enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
- Will Rogers
A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice
the goods while the policeman searches you.
- Will Rogers
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
- Will Rogers
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
- Will Rogers
Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
- Will Rogers
I read about eight newspapers in a day.
When I'm in a town with only one newspaper,
I read it eight times.
- Will Rogers
When you put down the good things you ought to have done,
and leave out the bad ones you did do well,
that's Memoirs.
- Will Rogers
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
- Will Rogers
I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue
us for calling him "father."
- Will Rogers
Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this',
and they didn't, they got worse.
- Will Rogers
There are three kinds of men.
The one that learns by reading.
The few who learn by observation.
The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
- Will Rogers
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
- Will Rogers
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.
- Will Rogers
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
- Will Rogers
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
- Will Rogers
Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
- Will Rogers
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.
- Will Rogers
The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
- Will Rogers
I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf.
I have never been depressed enough to take up the game,
but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
- Will Rogers
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
- Will Rogers
You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
- Will Rogers
America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions
for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
- Will Rogers
The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
- Will Rogers
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit
on the curb and applaud when they go by.
- Will Rogers
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
- Will Rogers
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
- Will Rogers
If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half
the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
- Will Rogers
One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
- Will Rogers
Good judgment comes from experience,
and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
- Will Rogers
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have
the whole government working for you.
- Will Rogers
On account of being a democracy and run by the people,
we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years,
no matter what it does.
- Will Rogers
All I know is just what I read in the papers,
and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
- Will Rogers
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