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Will Rogers Quotes about Life

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

"The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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

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

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

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.

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Will Rogers (1977). “Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

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'.