Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.Tom Sims Says, syndicated column, March 1925
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Will Rogers was an American actor, cowboy, and humorist, known for his witty observations and satirical commentary on the social and political climate of his time. He gained fame through his popular vaudeville performances, newspaper columns, and radio broadcasts, becoming one of the most beloved and influential personalities in 1920s and 1930s America.
1879–1935·lived 55 years
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.Tom Sims Says, syndicated column, March 1925
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
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.
Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.Illiterate Digest, 1924
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.Quoted in Sanity is Where You Find It - 1955
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.The Will Rogers Book, p. 45, 1940
That’s all 15 quotes by Will Rogers.