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Will Rogers
American
Actor
About the author
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,
American
Actor
#Forget
#Will
#Nothing
#Golf
#Enemies
#Mind
#Hate
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Party
I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Washington
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Government
#Facts
#Jokes
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Time
#Life
#Trying
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.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#War
#Nation
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Now
#Day
#Girls
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,
American
Actor
#Day
#Newspapers
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,
American
Actor
#Money
#Advertising
Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Funny
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Wife
#Years
If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Business
Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
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,
American
Actor
#Money
#Advertising
It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Being
#Government
It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Government
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Trouble
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#People
#Years
#Earth
#Money
#Race
#Learning
#Giving
#Prohibition
In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Time
#Hollywood
#Day
#Night
In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#People
#Hollywood
#Writing
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,
American
Actor
#Want
#Love
#Successful
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,
American
Actor
#Life
#Congress
#Funny
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.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Government
#Money
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Experience
#Judgment
If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Truth
#Politics
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Will
#Sound
Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Democrats
#Republicans
Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Practice
#Communism
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Action
#Inaction
Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Land
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Being
#Earth
#Profession
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Government
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.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#People
#Man
#Vote
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,
American
Actor
#Now
#Senate
#Rome
An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#People
You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#People
#Art
#Money
#Advertising
Politics is applesauce.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Politics
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Money
#Politics
People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#People
#Observation
#Argument
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#People
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.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Day
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Family
#Gossip
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Country
#Needs
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#War
#Diplomacy
Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Life
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.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Rest
#Republican
#Party
#Prayer
Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Liquor
#Prohibition
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Golf
#Tax
#Americans
#Income
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#People
#Lawyers
#Conscience
Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Constitution
#Senators
One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#People
#states
#United
One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Worth
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,
American
Actor
#People
#Years
#World
#Being
#Democracy
#Government
#Nation
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,
American
Actor
#President
#states
#United
Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Now
#Nation
Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Today
#Yesterday
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Right
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Difficulty
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Today
#Yesterday
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,
American
Actor
The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Years
#Popular
If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Production
Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Work
#Practice
#Liberty
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Gossip
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Crime
Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Money
#Women
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Stupidity
Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Right
#Will
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#People
#Politicians
#Comedians
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Man
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Movies
#Business
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Day
#Open
#Senators
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Nothing
#Man
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Independence
#Politics
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
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,
American
Actor
#Men
#Observation
#Reading
#Rest
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,
American
Actor
#May
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.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Time
#Now
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Time
#Death
#Congress
#Difference
#Taxes
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Being
#Government
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Time
#People
#Gossip
We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Nothing
#Lawyers
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Schools
The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#War
#states
#United
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Truth
There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Movies
#Education
Things ain't what they used to be and never were.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Country
#Government
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Being
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#People
#Man
#Reading
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Heroes
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Crime
#Tax
#Business
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#states
#United
#Senate
#Investigation
#Prayer
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,
American
Actor
#Work
#Living
#Education
The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Difference
#Republican
#Democrats
#Republicans
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Missionaries
#Difference
#Opinion
#Racing
A fool and his money are soon elected.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Money
#Fool
A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Company
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Country
#Congress
#Baby
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?"
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#President
#Country
#Man
#Vice
#Job
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Ignorance
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,
American
Actor
#Nothing
#America
#Nation
#Inventions
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Will
#Civilization
#Rights
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Ignorance
When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#College
When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#states
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,
American
Actor
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#People
#Years
#Earth
#Americans
#Race
#Learning
#Prohibition
Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#May
#Debt
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#War
#Civilization
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Nothing
#Being
#Country
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,
American
Actor
#War
#Diplomacy
#Soldiers
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Will
#Ignorance
#America
#Novelty
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Art
#Saying
#Diplomacy
The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Will Rogers,
American
Actor
#Politics
#Party