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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Will Rogers

Opinions
2

A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Will Rogers

Learning
3

All I know is just what I read in the papers.

Will Rogers

Newspaper
4

America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.

Will Rogers

United States of America
5

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else s.

Will Rogers

Economy and Economics
6

And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They dont like to be corrected in company. Dont send messages to em, send candy.

Will Rogers

Uncategorised
7

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Will Rogers

Government
8

Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.

Will Rogers

Heroes and Heroism
9

Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Will Rogers

Opinions
10

Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.

Will Rogers

Communism and Socialism
11

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

Will Rogers

Communism and Socialism
12

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Will Rogers

Gambling
13

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

Action
14

Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you do not know when it is through if you are a crook or a martyr.

Will Rogers

Taxes and Taxation
15

Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.

Will Rogers

Dress
16

Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

Ignorance
17

Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

Uncategorised
18

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Will Rogers

Change
19

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

Will Rogers

Humour
20

For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.

Will Rogers

Uncategorised
21

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Will Rogers

Praise
22

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Will Rogers

Time and Time Management
23

I am not a member of any organized partyI am a Democrat.

Will Rogers

Uncategorised
24

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Will Rogers

Government
25

I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a 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

Uncategorised
26

I have no Politics. I am for the Party that is out of Power, no matter which one it is. But I will give you my word that, in case of my appointment, I will not be a Republican; I will do my best to pull with you, and not embarrass you. In fact, my views on European affairs are so in accord with You, Mr. President, that I might almost be suspected of being a Democrat.

Will Rogers

Uncategorised
27

I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.

Will Rogers

Praise
28

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do today.

Will Rogers

Nudity
29

I never met a man I didn't like.

Will Rogers

Affection
30

I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Ive every said, and I used it in the FOLLIES of 1922. I said America has a unique record. We never lost a war and we never won a conference in our lives. I believe that we could without any degree of egotism, single-handed lick any nation in the world. But we cant confer with Costa Rica and come home with our shirts on.

Will Rogers

Uncategorised
31

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

Politicians and Politics
32

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

Will Rogers

Giving
33

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Will Rogers

Democratic Party, Politicians and Politics
34

I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

Will Rogers

Horse
35

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

Will Rogers

Stupidity
36

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Will Rogers

Truth
37

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

Film
38

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Will Rogers

Life and Living
39

Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf.

Will Rogers

Taxes and Taxation
40

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Will Rogers

Marriage
41

It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.

Will Rogers

Humankind
42

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

Will Rogers

Worth
43

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Will Rogers

Liberty
44

Lord, let me live until I die.

Will Rogers

Famous last words
45

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and its not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.

Will Rogers

Uncategorised
46

Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.

Will Rogers

Virtue
47

My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.

Will Rogers

Ancestry
48

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Will Rogers

Politicians and Politics
49

One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials.

Will Rogers

Advertising
50

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

Will Rogers

Revolutions and Revolutionaries
51

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

Will Rogers

Speakers and Speaking
52

Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.

Will Rogers

Pain
53

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

Will Rogers

Lawsuit
54

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Will Rogers

Politicians and Politics
55

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Will Rogers

Politicians and Politics
56

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers

Gossip
57

So when all the yielding and objections is over, the other Senator said, I object to the remarks of a professional joker being put into the Congressional Record. Taking a dig at me, see? They didnt want any outside fellow contributing. Well, he had me wrong. Compared to them Im an amateur, and the thing about my jokes is that they dont hurt anybody. You can say theyre not funny or theyre terrible or theyre good or whatever it is, but they dont do no harm. But with Congressevery time they make a joke its a law. And every time they make a law its a joke.

Will Rogers

Uncategorised
58

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Will Rogers

Friends and Friendship
59

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.

Will Rogers

Taxes and Taxation
60

The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

Will Rogers

Taxes and Taxation
61

The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die.

Will Rogers

Heroes and Heroism
62

The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

Politicians and Politics
63

The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?

Will Rogers

Debt
64

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

Will Rogers

Taxes and Taxation
65

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Will Rogers

Gossip
66

The person 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

Work
67

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Will Rogers

Politicians and Politics
68

The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.

Will Rogers

Election
69

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

Will Rogers

Memory
70

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Will Rogers

Politicians and Politics
71

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

Adversity
72

There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs.

Will Rogers

Biography
73

There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do is report the facts. I dont even have to exaggerate.

Will Rogers

Uncategorised
74

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Will Rogers

Politicians and Politics
75

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Will Rogers

Experts
76

There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.

Will Rogers

Election
77

There should be one day when there is open season on senators.

Will Rogers

Congress
78

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

Will Rogers

Film
79

Things will get better -- despite our efforts to improve them.

Will Rogers

Improvement
80

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Will Rogers

Congress
81

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Will Rogers

Politicians and Politics
82

We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

Will Rogers

Automobile
83

We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory.

Will Rogers

Uncategorised
84

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

Will Rogers

Heroes and Heroism
85

When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I dident like. I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.

Will Rogers

Uncategorised
86

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

Autobiography
87

With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.

Will Rogers

Congress
88

You can't say that civilization don't advance... for in every war they kill you a new way.

Will Rogers

Progress
89

You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Will Rogers

Memory
90

Youve got to be [an] optimist to be a Democrat, and youve got to be a humorist to stay one.

Will Rogers

Uncategorised

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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

All I know is just what I read in the papers.

America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else s.

And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They dont like to be corrected in company. Dont send messages to em, send candy.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.

Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you do not know when it is through if you are a crook or a martyr.

Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.

Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

I am not a member of any organized partyI am a Democrat.

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a 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.

I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do today.

I never met a man I didn't like.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

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.

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Lord, let me live until I die.

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and its not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.

Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.

My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.

No party is as bad as its leaders.

One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.

The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die.

The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

The person 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?

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

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.

There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs.

There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do is report the facts. I dont even have to exaggerate.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.

There should be one day when there is open season on senators.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

Things will get better -- despite our efforts to improve them.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory.