Will Rogers
(1879-1935)

Cherokee-American cowboy, comedian, actor
social commentator
"Ambassador to the World"

birthdate: November 4
birthplace:
near Oologah, Oklahoma

QUOTES

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.

The more ignorant you are the quicker you fight.

I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling, then the world will have peace.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

You can't say civilizations don't advance...in every war they kill you in a new way.

I never met a man I didn't like.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

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

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.

More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument

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