Will Rogers Quotes

• Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

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• When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.

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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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• When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

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• What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

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

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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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• We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

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

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• This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

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• Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

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

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

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

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• There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

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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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• The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

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• The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn’t go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he’s got.

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• The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

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Will Rogers (143)

Birth:	4th November, 1879
Death:	15th August, 1935
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Columnist, Comedian, Radio Personality

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