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I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know
anything else ... 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.
-- Will Rogers


The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them
is a match.

-- Will Rogers


I only know what I read in the papers.
-- Will Rogers


The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf
has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know
when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
-- Will Rogers


I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the
places they do today.
-- Will Rogers


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


Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know
any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he
doesn't know much.

-- Will Rogers


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

-- Will Rogers


A holding company is the people you give
your money to while you're being searched.

-- Will Rogers


The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse
every time Congress meets
-- Will Rogers


Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game -- it, and high
taxes.

-- Will Rogers


I only know what I read in the papers.
-- Will Rogers


I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the
places they do today.
-- Will Rogers


I might have gone to West Point, but I was too proud to speak to a congressman.
-- Will Rogers


“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.”
-- Will Rogers


“I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.”

-- Will Rogers


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


I'm not a real movie star -- I've still got the same wife I started out
with twenty-eight years ago.
-- Will Rogers


The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them
is a match.
-- Will Rogers


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


With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time
they make a law it's a joke.
-- Will Rogers


Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know
any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he
doesn't know much.
-- Will Rogers


I'm not a real movie star -- I've still got the same wife I started out
with twenty-eight years ago.
-- Will Rogers


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


I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes. I hope
they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em.

-- Will Rogers


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

-- Will Rogers


Maybe ain't ain't so correct, but I notice that lots of folks who ain't
using ain't ain't eatin' well.
-- Will Rogers


A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your
troubles
-- Will Rogers


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


Things will get better despite our efforts to improve them.
-- Will Rogers