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"If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable."
Will Rogers"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."
Will Rogers"An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's."
Will Rogers"The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."
Will Rogers"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."
Will Rogers"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."
Will Rogers"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat."
Will Rogers"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for."
Will Rogers"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else."
Will Rogers"I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do."
Will Rogers"This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer."
Will Rogers"It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for."
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."
Will Rogers"Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?"
Will Rogers"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."
Will Rogers"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
Will Rogers"There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail."
Will Rogers"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."
Will Rogers"A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people."
Will Rogers"We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can."
Will Rogers"There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."
Will Rogers"A fool and his money are soon elected."
Will Rogers"Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like."
Will Rogers"If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics."
Will Rogers"The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other."
Will Rogers"Politics is applesauce."
Will Rogers"Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated."
Will Rogers"You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way."
Will Rogers"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
Will Rogers"You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is."
Will Rogers"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."
Will Rogers"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."
Will Rogers"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."
Will Rogers"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."
Will Rogers"Make crime pay. Become a lawyer."
Will Rogers"People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide."
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"There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education."
Will Rogers"I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago."
Will Rogers"The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself."
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