Will Rogers Quotes

American - Actor | November 4, 1879 - August 15, 1935

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.

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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

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Things ain't what they used to be and never were.

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

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

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

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There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

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When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

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Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

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On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

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