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Will Rogers Quotes - Page 12

It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.

It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.

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'.

Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.

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

Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.

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.111, Rowman & Littlefield

They used to take your horse and if they were caught they got hung for it. Now they take your car, and if they are caught it's a miracle.

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

That's the trouble with our charities; we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.

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

You shake a slogan at an American and it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone.

Will Rogers (1955). “Sanity is where you find it: an affectionate history of the United States in the 20's and 30's”

Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely

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

Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.

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.229, Rowman & Littlefield

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

Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

Steak on the plate went up. Steak on the hoof went down.

Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927”