Will Rogers Quotes

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Will Rogers

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 4, 1879

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

Will Rogers

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'

Will Rogers

Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

Will Rogers

So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

Will Rogers

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

Will Rogers

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

Will Rogers

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

Will Rogers

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

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

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

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If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

Will Rogers

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

Will Rogers

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.

Will Rogers

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

Will Rogers

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

Will Rogers

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.

Will Rogers

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Will Rogers

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

Will Rogers

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Will Rogers