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

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die. — Will Rogers

Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish. — Carl Rogers

Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that's the only way I know to clear the thing up. — Will Rogers

There is nothing fairer than workmen having unions of their mutual benefit. — Will Rogers

If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway? — Will Rogers

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on Earth. — Will Rogers

The problem in America isn't so much what people don't know; the problem is what people think they know that just ain't so. — Will Rogers

Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments. — Will Rogers

If you let women have their way, you will generally get even with them in the end. — Will Rogers

The best way out of a difficulty is through it. — Will Rogers

Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach. — Will Rogers

Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them. — Will Rogers

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

I'll bet you the time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man. — Will Rogers

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

Foreign relations is an open book
generally a checkbook. — Will Rogers

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

The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back — Will Rogers

There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set. — Will Rogers

A company is known by the people it keeps. — Will Rogers

Common sense ain't common. — Will Rogers

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime. — Will Rogers

Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. — Will Rogers

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

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do. — Will Rogers

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation. — Will Rogers

Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word. — Will Rogers

It is better for some one to think you're a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. — Will Rogers

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics. — Will Rogers

I don't think anyone can grow unless he's loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be. — Fred Rogers

A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does. — Will Rogers

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

A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet. — Will Rogers

It's not what we don't know that hurts. It's what we know that ain't so. — Will Rogers

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid. — Will Rogers

One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not. — Will Rogers

The US is safest when Congress is in recess. — Will Rogers

Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans — Will Rogers

A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious. — Will Rogers

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. - WILL ROGERS — David Allen

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

You must never tell a thing. You must illustrate it. We learn through
the eye and not the noggin. — Will Rogers

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.' — Will Rogers

I don't know what humor is. — Will Rogers

The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him. — Will Rogers

I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with. — Will Rogers

And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one. — Will Rogers

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

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. — Will Rogers

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production. — Will Rogers

My hunch is that if we allow ourselves to give who we really are to the children in our care, we will in some way inspire cartwheels in their hearts. — Fred Rogers

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer. — Will Rogers

There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works. — Will Rogers

Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people. — Will Rogers

A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it. — Will Rogers

Don't raise anything, except what fits your appetite. Then the price don't worry you. Just raise all you can eat and let the low prices go by. — Will Rogers

No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans. — Will Rogers

If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there — Will Rogers

It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so. — Will Rogers

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

You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible; and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!. — Will Rogers

I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers; when they catch 'em from now on, they're going to publish their names. — Will Rogers

They are each good when they are out, and each bad when they are in. — Will Rogers

Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury! — Will Rogers

I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes-I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em — Will Rogers

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

Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial. — Will Rogers

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

It looks to me like the candidates are trying to relieve the farmer of his vote, instead of his debts. — Will Rogers

We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs. — Will Rogers

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it. — Will Rogers

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds. — Will Rogers

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious. — 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 are on the right track, but just sit there, you will still get run over. — Will Rogers

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

Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it. — Will Rogers

Satan can't keep God from answering our prayers, but he will keep us from asking. — Adrian Rogers

Sometimes people deserve a high five, in the face, with a chair. — Will Rogers

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

Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life. Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too — Peter Rogers

There is no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. — Will Rogers

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds. — Will Rogers

Local conservation programs can help our communities shape thoughtful growth. — Will Rogers

We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces? — Will Rogers

Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it. — Will Rogers

Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner. — Will Rogers

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? — Frank Scully

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

The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. — Will Rogers

People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth. — Will Rogers

The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent. — Will Rogers

It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it. — Will Rogers

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. — Will Rogers

Get all the good laughs you can. — Will Rogers

You will never get anywhere if you do not do your homework. — Jim Rogers

Cattlemen have lost more in the last few years than anybody and say less about it. — Will Rogers

When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging. — Will Rogers

Will Rogers used to say he wouldn't run for president no matter how badly the country needed a comedian. — Will Rogers