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Will Rogers Quotes - Page 11

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When a fellow ain't got much mind, it don't take him long to make it up.

When a fellow ain't got much mind, it don't take him long to make it up.

Long, Mind, Fellows

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

Country, Freedom, Real

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

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

Fall, Hair, Looks

My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.

Native American, Ancestry, Boat

What's considered enough money? Just a little bit more.

Littles, Enough, Bits

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Country, Political Will, Bunk

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.80, Rowman & Littlefield

Our president delivered his State of the Union message to Congress. That is one of the things his contract calls for -- to tell congress the condition of the country. This message, as I say, is to Congress. The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the president has to tell 'em.

Country, Ideas, America

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.

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

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

Inspiration, Idols, Profession

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

We do more talking progress than we do progressing.

Talking, Progress

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

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

Funny, Witty, Return

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

Funny, Lazy, Sloth

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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.

Marriage, Divorce, Looks

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

When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you've got to have been looking for it.

Home, Trouble, Miles

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

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

Education, Ignorance, America

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

The stock market has spoiled more appetites than bad cooking.

Cooking, Spoiled, Appetite

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

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.

Past, America, Hot

You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver.

Hands, Looks, Politician

Will Rogers (1983). “"How to be funny" & other writings of Will Rogers”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.

Waiting, President, Politics

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

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

Cocktails, Next, Revolution

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.

Book, America, Secret

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

The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men today as we used to have. Take every small-town-raised leader out of business and you would have nobody left running it but vice-presidents.

Running, Business, Men

There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.

Funny, Humorous, Party

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

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!

Stupidity, Way, Making Money

We Americans think we are pretty good! We want to build a house, we cut down some trees. We want to build a fire, we dig a little coal. But when we run out of all these things, then we will find out just how good we really are.

Running, Cutting, Thinking

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