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You've never in your life seen a picture, I bet any one of you, never seen a picture of one of these old Pilgrims praying when they didn't have a gun right by the side of them. That was to see that he got what he was

You've never in your life seen a picture, I bet any one of you, never seen a picture of one of these old Pilgrims praying when they didn't have a gun right by the side of them. That was to see that he got what he was praying for.

Will Rogers
Gun, Sides, Praying
Radio broadcast, April 14, 1935.

One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets.

Will Rogers
Car, Modern Life, Way
Will Rogers (1961). “The Will Rogers Book”

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Will Rogers
Funny, Humor, Able

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

Will Rogers
Inspirational, Happiness, Laughter
"Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 285, 1979.

The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.

Will Rogers
Politics, Republican, Democrat

Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.

Will Rogers
Cowboy, Hot, Cows

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

Will Rogers
Business, Long, Gossip
Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

Will Rogers
Cowboy, Way, Difficulty

Personally, I have always felt that the best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter...he's just got to know.

Will Rogers
Doctors, World, Matter
Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers: Reflections and Observations”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Will Rogers
Funny, Life, Wisdom
Letter in New York Times 29 Apr. 1930

We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

Will Rogers
Car, History, World
"The First Good News of the 1928 Campaign! Mr. Rogers Says He Will Not Run For Anything". Daily Telegram #1355 (syndicated column). "Will Roger's Daily Telegrams, The Hoover Years, 1929-1931". Book edited by Steven Gragert and James Smallwood, 2008.

The minute you read something and you can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer. Then, if you give it to another lawyer to read and he don't know just what it means, then you can be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. If it's in a few words and is plain, and understandable only one way, it was written by a non-lawyer.

Will Rogers
Mean, Giving, Few Words
Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover years, 1929-1931”

That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.

Will Rogers
Government, Too Much, Congress
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.56, Rowman & Littlefield

Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?

Will Rogers
Thinking, Religion, 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

It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.

Will Rogers
Cowboy, Sheep, Genius

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

Will Rogers
Political, Would Be, Politics

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

Will Rogers
Funny, Sarcastic, Hurt
Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover years, 1929-1931”

You know you've got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.

Will Rogers
Healing, Exercise, Brain

See where Congress passed a two billion dollar bill to relieve bankers' mistakes. You can always count on us helping those who have lost part of their fortune, but our whole history records nary a case where the loan was for the man who had absolutely nothing. Our theory is to help only those who can get along, even if they don't get a loan.

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

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Will Rogers
Life And Love, Business, Blow

A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.

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

Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.

Will Rogers
Effort, Way, Plans
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.107, Rowman & Littlefield

And the thing about my jokes is, they don't hurt anybody. You can take 'em or leave 'em - you can say they're funny or they're terrible or they're good, or whatever, but you can just pass 'em by. But with Congress, every time they make a joke, it's a law! And every time they make a law, it's a joke!

Will Rogers
Hurt, Law, Political
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.

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

It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.

Will Rogers
Men, Liberty, Libertarian

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