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.
Will Rogers Quotations
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You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat
Politics is applesauce.
Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week.
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Nothing you can't spell will ever work.
There ought to be one day - just one - where there is open season on senators.
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing -- and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
There is good news from Washington today. Congress is deadlocked and can't act.
Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.
We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.
If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we would have cause to start to worry.
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Our Constitution protects aliens, drunks, and U.S. senators.
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
On account of us 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.
People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
We have the best Congress money can buy.
With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.
Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.
I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.
Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals.
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know.
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.
An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.