Will Rogers

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An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

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.

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

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

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.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

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

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

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

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

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

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?'

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

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.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

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

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

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

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

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

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

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

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.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.