Will Rogers Quotes

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Will Rogers

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 4, 1879

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

Will Rogers

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

Will Rogers

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

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 of you.

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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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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

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It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

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Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

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

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

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If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

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If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Will Rogers

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

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People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

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An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

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Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.

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

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Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

Will Rogers