Quotations by Will Rogers

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

Will Rogers

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An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.

Will Rogers

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?

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

Will Rogers

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Will Rogers

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

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

Will Rogers

I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.

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

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I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

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If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.

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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

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Nothing you can't spell will ever work.

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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.

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Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

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Politics is applesauce.

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Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

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That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.

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The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know.

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The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Will Rogers

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

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

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There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators.

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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

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There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.

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

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We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.

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

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