Will Rogers quotes - page 4

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago. (Will Rogers)
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.
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Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
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Never miss a good chance to shut up.
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Always drink upstream from the herd.
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If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway.
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Lord, let me live until I die.
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And kid Congress and the Senate, don't scold 'em. They are just children thats never grown up. They don't like to be corrected in company. Don't send messages to 'em, send candy.
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You've never in your life seen a picture, I bet any one of you, never seen a picture of one of these old Pilgrims praying when they didn't have a gun right by the side of them. That was to see that he got what he was praying for.
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I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined, or hard to check, as a socially ambitious mother.
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We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead. (Will Rogers)
When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you've got to have been looking for it.
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I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
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Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
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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.
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I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that I've every said, and I used it in the FOLLIES of 1922. I said America has a unique record. We never lost a war and we never won a conference in our lives. I believe that we could without any degree of egotism, single-handed lick any nation in the world. But we can't confer with Costa Rica and come home with our shirts on.
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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.
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Invest in inflation. It's the only thing going up.
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There should be one day when there is open season on senators.
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We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory.
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The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. (Will Rogers)
The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
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There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.
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Papers say: "Congress is deadlocked and can't act." I think that is the greatest blessing that could befall this country.
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The only problem with Boy Scouts is, there aren't enough of them.
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