A comedian can only last 'til he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.
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He's a good sport. He's a serious guy, but I don't think he takes himself too seriously.
JEFF DUCLOS It's a topic the gold industry in Nevada takes serious.
DAVE COOK We're going to do some serious talking to the owner before he takes the dog.
LAURA DENNIS Please, get serious. He can look after himself, he's a big boy.
OLLIE LE ROUX Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Whenever you're coming off a serious injury, it takes time to heal.
DANIEL SNYDER I don't think anyone in their right mind takes me serious.
ANDY RODDICK A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things.
JEFF DUNHAM While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing mus...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
LEIGH HUNT A master communicator can either set his audience free or imprison them.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy...
BAUDOUIN I I think it's an important enough case that we have to spend what it takes. It's not about this parti...
LARRY SIMMONS My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he...
ARTHUR MILLER If the injury is serious he will surely have to alter his plans.
ERIC ZHANG Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I ...
WOODROW T. WILSON Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I ...
WOODROW WILSON Death does not concern me. He who takes his first step uses perhaps his last shoes. (Halmalo)
VICTOR HUGO He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It's nothing serious. He actually fell on the tarmac. There is not much you can do when a crash take...
JOHAN BRUYNEEL The first thing I'd ask him is to justify his means. He takes people's lives. He blows up a lot of t...
DAVE MARASH That boy's got some serious feet. He can run, no doubt about it I think we handled him a little bett...
ALEC GUNN That boy's got some serious feet. He can run, no doubt about it
I think we handled him a little b...
ALEC GUNN He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; w...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He's such a hard worker. He'll do whatever it takes to not only make himself better, but whatever it...
DELBERT TENGAN Andy takes the game seriously; he doesn't take himself seriously.
LARRY HAYLOR Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don't.
GAD ELMALEH It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD When a man takes an oath...,he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens h...
ROBERT BOLT (McDyess) has been like that the last week or two. It takes him a little while to get into his flow....
FLIP SAUNDERS Earth's crammed with heaven...
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING If you look at Stan Lee and the Marvel comics, yes, there's a lot of awesome, serious and dramat...
DAVID DASTMALCHIAN When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has pu...
MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would l...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Anything that would reduce standards, we would have a serious concern about. We certainly don't want...
BOB BAKER Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did a...
LENNY BRUCE Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did a...
LENNY BRUCE He got a slight strain. It was best that we took him off. Hopefully it's not too serious and he will...
STEVE BRUCE It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifet...
STEVE MARABOLI A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainme...
AMIT KALANTRI Every relationship takes you either towards your dreams or away from them.
VIKRANT PARSAI It's great to see Mark Jones in the squad after two very serious knee operations. He is a recognized...
MIKE RUDDOCK The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, no...
RAYMOND CHANDLER I thought Lenny took him out of his game. He took half the shots [seven] he normally takes [13].
HOWIE DICKENMAN It's a win-win situation for Saddam and his cronies. He either goes in there and he takes over the p...
CHERIF BASSIOUNI When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, wat...
AL MCGUIRE If you look at him, you would think he's 20-something. He takes care of his body ... look in his loc...
KEARY COLBERT Alex, the big kid that he is, he takes care of himself and when guys try to hit him, it's almost a m...
CHRIS CLARK This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where,...
MARIE OSMOND Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself and holds a just balan...
PETER LATHAM People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either beco...
JACK LAYTON Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He ...
GORE VIDAL All of us would be terribly frightened if we had an engine fire, or a serious mechanical problem. Pe...
DUANE BROWN In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only tw...
BHAGAT SINGH If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he...
HERODOTUS He always liked to have a good time. It could be a serious time and you could always count on him to...
JEFF GWALTNEY It takes a great deal of effort to either add or subtract a species from listing.
KAREN STEUER Either we head into a more serious crisis, which will hit economic growth, or we abandon reform for ...
MARC TOUATI I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not...
EURIPIDES Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, t...
CHARLES DE GAULLE D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself?
Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. No...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS He's not satisfied with his performance. He knows he can do better, and he knows he will do better. ...
FRED WILPON Ben is twenty-six, and this is his first job. He is small, weedy, and terribly, terribly serious abo...
JUDITH FLANDERS Naked a man comes from his mother’s womb, and as he comes, so he departs. He takes nothing from hi...
KING SOLOMON . . . although a skilful flatterer is a most delightful companion, if you can keep him all to yourse...
CHARLES DICKENS I am a professional performer and I only appear on TV for entertainment or for philanthropic organiz...
LIONEL STANDER Despite serious reservations, I had to forgive Finnick for his role in the conspiracy that landed me...
SUZANNE COLLINS It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand h...
F. H. BRADLEY If there is a failure, there has to be either hardware or software that takes over.
ATUL BHATNAGAR The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by...
UMBERTO ECO Obviously, I'm very disappointed. This is a serious matter, it's a very serious matter and serious m...
JON GRUDEN That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have se...
PAUL GOODMAN It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
CHARLES STUDD That's how serious he is about proving himself. This isn't even about playing with a chip on your sh...
ANTONIO PIERCE It usually takes him a little warm to get warmed up. He started throwing his fast ball in the third ...
JEFF TORBORG He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.
GEORGE HERBERT Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to ma...
BAUDOUIN I Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.
DEAN KOONTZ That boy's got some serious feet. He can run, no doubt about it … I thi...
ALEC GUNN He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lea...
BLAISE PASCAL A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.
JOAN WELSH A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs.
JOAN WELSH But you're worried I'll get in trouble?" I try not to show how much this pleases me. I've managed to...
SOPHIE JORDAN While this is part of his job, he still takes time to do everything that he can before he returns to...
DON MCCLURE Some serious gaps presently exist, ... They are not presently coordinated either to protect, prevent...
GARY HART He who takes a partner takes a master
FRENCH PROVERB Mistakes and rejections are learning opportunities that can be used to improve the future. A confide...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA This is a great man, a great American. For him to come forward and admit he made this mistake it ...
HANS MUEH Every delay comes at our expense. There is no vacuum in serious crime. The No. 1 is assassinated, th...
YOSSI SEDBON Anyone who takes the time to attentively listen is either an old soul or a romantic one.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH They hit him hard, but he doesn't let them get to his head. He takes it, and he's quiet about it. I ...
JOE DIAZ The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a c...
CARLOS CASTENEDA No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JOHNSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JONSON A man who is advised and he takes it, is still a man who acts from his own free will.
ESAN MAGAZINE Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til t...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM IBM's announcement is a good message to the marketplace of how a serious, large player like IBM take...
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Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
WILL ROGERS Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
WILL ROGERS Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
WILL ROGERS Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
WILL ROGERS The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
WILL ROGERS Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
WILL ROGERS When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
WILL ROGERS I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get...
WILL ROGERS I have no Politics. I am for the Party that is out of Power, no matter which one it is. But I will g...
WILL ROGERS When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked abo...
WILL ROGERS Here it is, a New Year. We got to make some resolutions, as well as interest and tax payments in thi...
WILL ROGERS Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects.
WILL ROGERS Lord, the money we do spend on Government and its not one bit better than the government we got for ...
WILL ROGERS There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you ...
WILL ROGERS We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory.
WILL ROGERS Youve got to be an optimist to be a Democrat, and youve got to be a humorist to stay one.
WILL ROGERS I am not a member of any organized partyI am a Democrat.
WILL ROGERS And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They do...
WILL ROGERS I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Iv...
WILL ROGERS I never met a man I didn't like.
WILL ROGERS When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds
WILL ROGERS Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Cong...
WILL ROGERS The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse ...
WILL ROGERS Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
WILL ROGERS You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.
WILL ROGERS It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.
WILL ROGERS I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get s...
WILL ROGERS Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.
WILL ROGERS Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes ...
WILL ROGERS Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
WILL ROGERS It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
WILL ROGERS Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.
WILL ROGERS In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You bein...
WILL ROGERS Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start...
WILL ROGERS The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every ...
WILL ROGERS I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
WILL ROGERS I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
WILL ROGERS No party is as bad as its leaders.
WILL ROGERS Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
WILL ROGERS The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each part...
WILL ROGERS The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
WILL ROGERS This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried...
WILL ROGERS The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long ...
WILL ROGERS If you ever injected truth into politics, you would have no politics.
WILL ROGERS Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and their politicians as jokes.
WILL ROGERS It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was s...
WILL ROGERS All I know is what I read in the papers.
WILL ROGERS The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the ...
WILL ROGERS America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
WILL ROGERS The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best o...
WILL ROGERS Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
WILL ROGERS About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an i...
WILL ROGERS America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
WILL ROGERS Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House an...
WILL ROGERS There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you
WILL ROGERS There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more lea...
WILL ROGERS A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people
WILL ROGERS There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
WILL ROGERS There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
WILL ROGERS Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
WILL ROGERS Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
WILL ROGERS Never miss a good chance to shut up.
WILL ROGERS Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
WILL ROGERS I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk ...
WILL ROGERS The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
WILL ROGERS You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.
WILL ROGERS Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoymen...
WILL ROGERS A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
WILL ROGERS Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
WILL ROGERS All I know is just what I read in the papers.
WILL ROGERS Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.
WILL ROGERS If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
WILL ROGERS There's no trick to being humorous when you have the whole government working for you.
WILL ROGERS Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
WILL ROGERS There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoir...
WILL ROGERS When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do -- w...
WILL ROGERS There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The ...
WILL ROGERS Compared to them I
WILL ROGERS The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up...
WILL ROGERS We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR C...
WILL ROGERS My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.
WILL ROGERS Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
WILL ROGERS Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.
WILL ROGERS I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.
WILL ROGERS The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal...
WILL ROGERS An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else s.
WILL ROGERS There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberat...
WILL ROGERS A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at...
WILL ROGERS The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?
WILL ROGERS The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die.
WILL ROGERS Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.
WILL ROGERS We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
WILL ROGERS There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can ne...
WILL ROGERS Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.
WILL ROGERS Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
WILL ROGERS I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
WILL ROGERS Live so that you wouldn
WILL ROGERS The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
WILL ROGERS In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write, but evidently can't read. If they c...
WILL ROGERS There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
WILL ROGERS There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set. If you have los...
WILL ROGERS Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something ...
WILL ROGERS Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up. If it don't...
WILL ROGERS Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people th...
WILL ROGERS I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do today.
WILL ROGERS Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are to finishing it. You take Diplomac...
WILL ROGERS I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
WILL ROGERS This depression was deep, and you don't climb out of anything as quick as you fall in.
WILL ROGERS Lord, let me live until I die.
WILL ROGERS One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
WILL ROGERS Things will get better -- despite our efforts to improve them.
WILL ROGERS You can't say that civilization don't advance... for in every war they kill you a new way.
WILL ROGERS There should be one day when there is open season on senators.
WILL ROGERS This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a h...
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 When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.
WILL ROGERS Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't ...
WILL ROGERS If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session ...
WILL ROGERS Communism is like Prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work
WILL ROGERS In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in...
WILL ROGERS Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting ...
WILL ROGERS You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war, they kill you in a new way.
WILL ROGERS You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
WILL ROGERS Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
WILL ROGERS Popularity is the easiest thing in the world to gain and it is the hardest thing to hold
WILL ROGERS You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one
WILL ROGERS Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
WILL ROGERS All I know is what I read in the papers
WILL ROGERS Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf.
WILL ROGERS The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meet...
WILL ROGERS The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
WILL ROGERS The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Even when you make a tax form out on ...
WILL ROGERS Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you do not know when it is through if you are a croo...
WILL ROGERS Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people th...
WILL ROGERS Common sense ain't common.
WILL ROGERS I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it
WILL ROGERS The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every mor...
WILL ROGERS Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.
WILL ROGERS I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now.
WILL ROGERS Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
WILL ROGERS Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.
WILL ROGERS You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
WILL ROGERS For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the po...
WILL ROGERS Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
WILL ROGERS Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
WILL ROGERS Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each ot...
WILL ROGERS All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
WILL ROGERS Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ...
WILL ROGERS Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutio...
WILL ROGERS Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it...
WILL ROGERS A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you...
WILL ROGERS Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
WILL ROGERS One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
WILL ROGERS A fool and his money are soon elected.
WILL ROGERS I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
WILL ROGERS Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
WILL ROGERS It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
WILL ROGERS People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their...
WILL ROGERS Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress peo...
WILL ROGERS Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they do...
WILL ROGERS Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising a...
WILL ROGERS If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising ...
WILL ROGERS The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress ...
WILL ROGERS What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
WILL ROGERS Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
WILL ROGERS There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The ...
WILL ROGERS I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
WILL ROGERS Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then se...
WILL ROGERS Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
WILL ROGERS Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
WILL ROGERS You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
WILL ROGERS Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
WILL ROGERS We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
WILL ROGERS A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
WILL ROGERS Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United Stat...
WILL ROGERS Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
WILL ROGERS The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live o...
WILL ROGERS When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
WILL ROGERS A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
WILL ROGERS Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
WILL ROGERS People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
WILL ROGERS We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
WILL ROGERS The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
WILL ROGERS I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'
WILL ROGERS Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans
WILL ROGERS Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we neve...
WILL ROGERS Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
WILL ROGERS Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
WILL ROGERS Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a Hous...
WILL ROGERS If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, a...
WILL ROGERS Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplo...
WILL ROGERS If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper t...
WILL ROGERS I am not a member of any organized party--I am a Democrat.
WILL ROGERS Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.
WILL ROGERS An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
WILL ROGERS Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifu...
WILL ROGERS