Will Rogers
60 quotations
One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials.
I never met a man I didn't like.
The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else s.
America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Lord, let me live until I die.
Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.
I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.
My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.
The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die.
Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.
Things will get better -- despite our efforts to improve them.
A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.