Will Rogers

“The best way out of a difficulty is through it.”

“There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.”

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

“My goal is to live until I die.”

“The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.”

“If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.”

“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.”

“Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.”

“Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.”

“The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'”

“An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.”

“America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.”

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

“If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.”

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

“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”

“It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.”

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

“If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.”

“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.”

“If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.”

“I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.”

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

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