Will Rogers

"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else."

Illiterate Digest (1924),

"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read; if they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."

"When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do - well, that's Memoirs."

The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949)

"The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them."

"You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way."

New York Times, 23 Dec 1929

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

"Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help get them back in bed again."

The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949)

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

New York Times, 29 Apr 1930

"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing -- and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."

"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."

For more information about Will Rogers, try these links:

• More Will Rogers' Quotes - From the Quote Search page
• The following books and tapes are available through Amazon.com:
  • American Original: A Life of Will Rogers by Ray Robinson
  • Ambassador Bill VHS tape with Will Rogers
  • The Best of Will Rogers by Bryan Sterling (Editor)
  • Will Rogers : A Biography by Ben Yagoda
• The Will Rogers Home Page - Southwestern Bell presents biographies of Will Rogers and his wife, Betty Blake Rogers.
• J.Ellen Cotton's Will Rogers Page - A concise biography and even more quotes from Will Rogers

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