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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
US humorist & showman [more author details]
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An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
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Will Rogers
An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
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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.
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
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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.
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
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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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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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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.
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The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
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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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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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We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.
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Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
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Will Rogers, 'Politics Getting Ready to Jell,' The Illiterate Digest, 1924
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
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Will Rogers, Autobiography (1949) chapter 6
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
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Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Breaking into the Writing Game"
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
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Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes"
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