Quotes by Rogers, Will

"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."

Rogers, Will on adversity
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"One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials."

Rogers, Will on advertising   

"I never met a man I didn't like."

Rogers, Will on affection   

"The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?"

Rogers, Will on debt   

"Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse."

Rogers, Will on dress
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"An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else s."

Rogers, Will on economy and economics   

"The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election."

Rogers, Will on elections   

"There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket."

Rogers, Will on elections   

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

Rogers, Will on experts
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"Lord, let me live until I die."

Rogers, Will on famous last words
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"Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet."

Rogers, Will on friends and friendship   

"Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up. If it don't go up, don't buy it."

Rogers, Will on gambling   

"I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips."

Rogers, Will on giving   

"America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing."

Rogers, Will on america
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"My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat."

Rogers, Will on ancestry   

"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."

Rogers, Will on gossip
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"The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them."

Rogers, Will on gossip   

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."

Rogers, Will on government   

"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for."

Rogers, Will on government
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"The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die."

Rogers, Will on heroes and heroism   

"Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth."

Rogers, Will on heroes and heroism   

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

Rogers, Will on heroes and heroism
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"I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse."

Rogers, Will on horses
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"It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human."

Rogers, Will on humankind
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"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else."

Rogers, Will on humor
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"Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects."

Rogers, Will on ignorance
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"Things will get better -- despite our efforts to improve them."

Rogers, Will on improvement   

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

Rogers, Will on law suits
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"A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people."

Rogers, Will on learning
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"Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches."

Rogers, Will on liberty
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"In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough."

Rogers, Will on life   

"It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else."

Rogers, Will on marriage   

"The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office."

Rogers, Will on memory
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"You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness."

Rogers, Will on memory
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"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."

Rogers, Will on movies   

"All I know is just what I read in the papers."

Rogers, Will on newspapers   

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

Rogers, Will on nudity   

"Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion."

Rogers, Will on opinions
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"A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries."

Rogers, Will on opinions
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"Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment."

Rogers, Will on pain
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