Will Rogers the Actor, biography, facts and quotes

"The best way out of a difficulty is through it"

"People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing"

"We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by"

"Make crime pay. Become a lawyer"

"Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week"

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

"A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you"

"You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is"

"Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it"

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

"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"

"The schools ain't what they used to be and never was"

"One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials"

"I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father.""

"Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due"

"When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur"

"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide"

"Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse"

"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts"

"When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states"

"We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?"

"The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got"

"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far"

"The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing"

"The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself"

"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others"

"People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide"

"The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you"

"In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time"

"I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies"

"Things ain't what they used to be and never were"

"There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education"

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you"

"There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators"

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in"

"There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail"

"The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living"

"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""

"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf"

"The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it"

"The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer"

"The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats"

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

"We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can"

"This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die"

"This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer"

"The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets"

"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way"

"Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated"

"It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so"

Born as	William Penn Adair Rogers
Occup.	Actor
From	USA
Born	November 4, 1879 Oologah, Indian Territory, United States
Died	August 15, 1935 Point Barrow, Alaska, United States
Cause	Plane Crash
Aged	55 years

Will Rogers Biography

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