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You see, in Washington they have these bodies, Senate and the House of Representatives. That is for the convenience of the visitors. If there is nothing funny happening in one, there is sure to be in the other, and in

You see, in Washington they have these bodies, Senate and the House of Representatives. That is for the convenience of the visitors. If there is nothing funny happening in one, there is sure to be in the other, and in case one body passes a good bill, why, the other can see it in time and kill it.

Will Rogers
America, House, Body
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.51, Rowman & Littlefield

In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.

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

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

Will Rogers
Funny, Life, Inspiration
Daily Telegram number 2678 on March 06, 1935. "Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Roosevelt years, 1933-1935". Book edited by Steven Gragert and James Smallwood, 2008.

Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.

Will Rogers
Inspirational, Sports, Teenager

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

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

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

Will Rogers
Funny, Hilarious, Parenting
The Illiterate Digest "Warning to Jokers: Lay Off the Prince" (1924)

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

Will Rogers
Journalism, Newspapers, Newspapers Journalism

Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.

Will Rogers
Lying, Age, Aging

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
Inspiration, Law, Minutes
"The Lawyers Talking" (1935)

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.

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

My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.

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

One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.

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

Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.

Will Rogers
History, Source, Misled
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.33, Rowman & Littlefield

I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.

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

All I know is just what I read in the Congressional Record. They have had some awful funny articles in there lately. As our government deteriorates, our humor increases.

Will Rogers
Government, Records, Awful
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.57, Rowman & Littlefield

You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Will Rogers
Memories, Men, Remember

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

Will Rogers
Inspirational, Selfishness, World

This would be a great world to dance in if we didn’t have to pay the fiddler.

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

I'm not a member of an organized party. I'm a Democrat.

Will Rogers
Party, Politics, Members

There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long; and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can't stand him quite that long.

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

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.

Will Rogers
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

People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.

Will Rogers
Government, People, Don't Change

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

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

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

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

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