Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)
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Famous Will Rogers Quotes
“Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.”
“Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.”
“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.”
“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”
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“I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'”
Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)
“A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.”
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“It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.”
Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929
“What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.”
“If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?”
“People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.”
Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.”
“A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.”
“There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.”
“Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.”
Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)
“All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.”
Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929
“America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.”
Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)
“Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.”
Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.”
Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover Years, 1929-1931
“An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.”
“Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.”
“I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.”
“I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.”
“The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.”
“We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?”
“Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.”
“When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.”
Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.”
“There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.”
“It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.”