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• I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Country, Travel

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• Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Humor, Cowboy

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• A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Freedom, Real

  Will Rogers (1982). “The Writings of Will Rogers”

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• One of these days they are going to remove so much of the 'hooey' and the thousands of things the schools have become clogged up with, and we will find that we can educate our broods for about one-tenth of the price and learn 'em something that they might accidentally use after they escape.

  Will Rogers

  School, America, Ems

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.29, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.

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  Wine, Years, Long

  Will Rogers (1919). “Rogers-isms: The Cowboy Philosopher on Prohibition”

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• Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word.

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  Mother, Race, People

  Will Rogers (1983). “Radio broadcasts of Will Rogers”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

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• I'm not so much interested in the return ON my money as I am in the return OF my money.

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  Funny, Witty, Return

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• Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

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  Inspiration, Idols, Profession

  Newspaper article, 15 Feb. 1925, in Paula McSpadden Grove The Will Rogers Book (1961) p. 193

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• You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.

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  Peace, War, America

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.19, Rowman & Littlefield

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• We do more talking progress than we do progressing.

  Will Rogers

  Talking, Progress

  Will Rogers (1927). “There's not a bathing suit in Russia & other bare facts”

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• Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

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  Funny, Lazy, Sloth

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain't.

  Will Rogers

  Marriage, Divorce, Looks

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams”

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• The only thing that can stop hair from falling ... is the floor.

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  Fall, Hair, Looks

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

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  Education, Ignorance, America

  "Will Rogers Speaks". Over 1000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers And Writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers...,

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• What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.

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  Inspirational, Selfishness, World

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• We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.

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  Past, America, Hot

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• Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.

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  Giving Up, Men, Europe

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.

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  Lying, Half, Said

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• The stock market has spoiled more appetites than bad cooking.

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  Cooking, Spoiled, Appetite

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.

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  Book, America, Secret

  Will Rogers (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.

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  Government, Years, Three

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• If you want to be successful, love what you are doing.

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  Successful, Want, Ifs

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• It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.

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  Sports, Greatness, Self Respect

  Quoted in'A RogersThesaurus' inThe Saturday Review, 25 Aug 1962. Another form of the quote appeared in a syndicated newspaper article,15 Feb1925: 'Heroing is one of the shortestlived professions there is'.

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• The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it's not going to go up, don't buy it!

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  Stupidity, Way, Making Money

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• One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

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  Cocktails, Next, Revolution

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