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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.


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WILL ROGERS The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
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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.
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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.
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WILL ROGERS There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more lea...
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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.
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WILL ROGERS Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.
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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.
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WILL ROGERS The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
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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.
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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
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WILL ROGERS Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
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WILL ROGERS Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf.
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WILL ROGERS The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
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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...
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WILL ROGERS Common sense ain't common.
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WILL ROGERS Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.
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WILL ROGERS Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
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WILL ROGERS Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
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WILL ROGERS Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each ot...
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WILL ROGERS Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it...
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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 ...
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WILL ROGERS What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
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WILL ROGERS I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
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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.
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WILL ROGERS Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
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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.'
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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.
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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 The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every mor...
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