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Will Rogers [1879-1935] American

Rank: 4
Actor

William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers was a stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, American cowboy, humorist, newspaper columnist, and social commentator.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.	Experience, Good	86
Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.	Funny, Humor	101
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.	Equality	102
Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.	Best, Life	103
A fool and his money are soon elected.	Money, Politics	104
Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.		105
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.		106
Never let yesterday use up too much of today.		108
Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.	Money	109
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.	Government, Politics	110
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.	Business	111
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.	Government	112
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.	Funny, Government, Thankful	113
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.		114
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.	Money, Politics	115
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.		116
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.	Legal	117
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.	Art	118
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.		119
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.	Money	120
I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'		121
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.	Education, Work	122
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.	Wisdom	123
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?	Government	124
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.		125
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.	Time	126
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.		201
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.	Time	202
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?'	Best, Morning	203
The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.	Politics	204
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.	War	205
When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.		206
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.	Money	207
It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.	Government	208
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.	Legal	209
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.	Learning	210
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.		211
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.		212
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.	Funny	213
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?		214
You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.	Wisdom	215
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.	Truth	216
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.		217
People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.		218
Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.		219
Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there.		220
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.	Death	221
Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.		222
Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.		223
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.		224
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.	Men	225
If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.	Business	226
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.		301
If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.		302
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?	Business	303
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.	War	304
America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.		305
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.		306
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.	Learning, Money	307
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.	Funny	308
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.		309
The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.		310
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.		311
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.	Art, Money	312
Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.		313
It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.	Government	314
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.		315
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.	Learning	316
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.	Best	317
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.		318
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.		319
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.		320
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.	Sports	321
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.	Independence, Politics	322
Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.		323
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.	War	324
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.		325
A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.		326
Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.		401
The United States never lost a war or won a conference.	War	402
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.		403
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.		404
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.	Education	405
We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.	Life	406
I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.		407
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.	Government	408
When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.		409
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.		410
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.		411
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.		412
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.		413
If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.	Funny	414
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.	Government	415
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.		416
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.	Movies	417
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.	Government	418
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.		419
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.		420
I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.		421
Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.		422
Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.		423
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.		424
There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.	Education, Movies	425
Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.		426
One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.		501
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.		502
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.	Government	503
Things ain't what they used to be and never were.		504
An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.		505
If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.	Politics	506
Politics is applesauce.	Politics	507
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.		508
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.	Finance	509
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.	Movies	510
When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.		511
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.		512
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.	Business	513
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.		514
Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.		515
In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.		516
One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.		517
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.		518

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