Will Rogers Quotes - Page 18

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• More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.

  Will Rogers

  World, Argument

  Will Rogers (1973). “There's Not a Bathing Suit in Russia & Other Bare Facts”

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• Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.

  Will Rogers

  Girl, Mother, Wisdom

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

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Money, Two

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover years, 1929-1931”

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• Everytime a lawyer writes something, he is not writing for posterity, he is writing something so that endless others of his craft can make a living out of trying to figure out what he said. Course perhaps he really haden't said anything, that's what makes it so hard to explain.

  Will Rogers

  Writing, Trying, Crafts

  "The Lawyers Talking" (1935)

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• There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.

  Will Rogers

  Party, Political, Promotion

  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 farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

  Will Rogers

  Agriculture, Optimist, Farmers

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

  Will Rogers

  Life, Sports, Hero

  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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• Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.

  Will Rogers

  Politics, Trouble, Stamps

  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.28, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I have often said in answer to inquiries as to how I got away with kidding some of our public men, that it was because I liked all of them personally, and that if there was no malice in your heart there could be none in your "Gags", and I have always said I never met a man I dident like.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Heart, Men

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1988). “The Will Rogers scrapbook”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.

  Will Rogers

  Honesty, Men, World

  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.79, Rowman & Littlefield

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• How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?

  Will Rogers

  Government, America, Usual

  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.99, Rowman & Littlefield

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• We had a great lunch. Senator Capper paid for it. The Republican pays, as usual. And everything that the Democrats are doin' now, the Republicans pay for it. Everybody asks me, "Will, how long is this going to go on, spending all this money and everything going like this?" I says, "Well, it will go on just as long as the Republicans has got any money. That's all I know about it."

  Will Rogers

  Lunch, Long, Usual

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• It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.

  Will Rogers

  Want, Quitting, Audience

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• We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.

  Will Rogers

  Peculiar, Welfare, Hog

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• I'll bet you the time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Knows

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

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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.

  Will Rogers

  Life, Knowledge, Giving

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• I know things are going to get better in spite of both sides. Then when things do get better, then you'll hear the yell that will go up. The Democrats will swear that recovery was due to them. Now the Republicans, they'll say it was due to them. Nobody wanted to claim the credit for the country blowing up, but wait until it starts picking up and they'll both be on it then. See?

  Will Rogers

  Country, Recovery, Waiting

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• Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can't ruin this country even with politics.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Men, Politics

  Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1927-1929”

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• Originality will be rewarded in any line.

  Will Rogers

  Lines, Originality

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

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  Men, Political, Politics

  The Illiterate Digest "Mr. Ford and Other Political Self-Starters" (1924)

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• There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do is report the facts. I dont even have to exaggerate.

  Will Rogers

  Government, Comedian, Credit

  Saturday Review, August 25, 1962.

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• Well, another senator rose and said {as they always do} 'Does the gentleman yield?' They always say that - least they call each other 'gentleman' in there. But the tone they put on the word, it would sound more appropriate if they came right out and said 'Would the coyote from Maine yield?' 'cause that's about the way it sounds. Well, then, the other senator says 'I yield' (for if he don't the other guy'll keep on talking anyhow). So the coyote from Maine says 'I yield to...the polecat from Oregon!'

  Will Rogers

  Oregon, Yield, Talking

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• Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.

  Will Rogers

  Money, Years, Government

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

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• You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the ones in the various federal prisons, it brings your total membership up to around thirty thousand.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Organization, Membership

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• We live in an age of 'urge'. We do nothing till somebody shoves us.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Age, Urges

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

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