Will Rogers Quotes

American - Actor November 4, 1879 - August 15, 1935

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

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

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Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

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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.

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You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

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A fool and his money are soon elected.

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The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

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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.

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The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.

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

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

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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.

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

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