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Will Rogers quotes (41) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. Will Rogers Category: Laugh Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now whats going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House? Will Rogers Category: Congress Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far. Will Rogers Category: Flattery Im not a member of any organized political party Im a Democrat! Will Rogers Category: Democrat Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth. Will Rogers Category: Hero Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches. Will Rogers Category: Practice Its great to be great but its greater to be human. Will Rogers Category: Learn I never met a man I didnt like. Will Rogers Category: Chocolate Its a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. Will Rogers Category: Government 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 Hows the President? Will Rogers Category: Job If you can build a business up big enough its respectable. Will Rogers Category: Business There is nothing so stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. Will Rogers Category: Education Well all I know is what I read in the papers. Will Rogers Category: Reactionaries 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 Category: Stocks Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. Will Rogers Category: Reputation Too many people spend money they havent earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like. Will Rogers Category: Money Even if you are on the right track youll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers Category: Decency Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. Will Rogers Category: Humor If you want to be successful know what you are doing love what you are doing and believe in what you are doing. Will Rogers Category: Do Its not what you pay a man but what he costs you that counts. Will Rogers Category: Cost Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects. Will Rogers Category: If A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you. Will Rogers Category: Accomplices The American people are very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness with the possible exception of stupidity. Will Rogers Category: Ambition If Stupidity got us into this mess then why cant it get us out? Will Rogers Category: Stupidity Buy land. They aint making any more of the stuff. Will Rogers Category: Unsorted The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. Will Rogers Category: Gossip It aint what we don't know that gives us trouble its what we know that aint so. Will Rogers Category: Know Wed all vote for the best man but hes never a candidate. Will Rogers Category: Politics I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it. Will Rogers Category: Bought An economists guess is liable to be as good as anybody elses. Will Rogers Category: Economy The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Will Rogers Category: Lever The more you observe politics the more youve got to admit that each party is worse than the other. Will Rogers Category: Politeness I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. Will Rogers Category: Divorce You cant say civilization isnt advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. Will Rogers Category: Civilization Diplomacy is the art of saying Nice doggie until you can find a rock. Will Rogers Category: Diploma You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people. Will Rogers Category: Law Theres no trick in being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. Will Rogers Category: Comedian Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. Will Rogers Category: Haste I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only to give everybody chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war but generally one will do it. Will Rogers Category: War Our constitution protects aliens drunks and U.S. Senators. Will Rogers Category: Alcohol See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? Will Rogers Category: Children |
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