Will Rogers

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

"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."

"I never met a man I didn't like, but that don't mean I had to like what he done."

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."

"We are not as divided as our politicians."

"Politics is applesauce, and we all know it."

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

"The more you read and observe about this politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other."

"A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people."

"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

"I have always felt that the way to get the best out of people is to appeal to their best side."

"Collective wisdom never amounts to much."

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

"An onion can make people cry, but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh."

"Don't let yesterday take up too much of today."

"If you want to be successful, it's just this simple: know what you are doing, love what you are doing, and believe in what you are doing."

"The secret of life is to figure out what it is you love to do, then do it."

"I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody."

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."

"Common sense ain't common."

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

"Time is the greatest healer."

"You've got to be an optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one."

"The short memories of American voters is all that saves some of them from being ineligible for re-election."

"Democracy is the best form of government we've ever tried, that's not saying much."

"Nothing is wrong with America that good old American work won't cure."

"After all, what's the use of being a 'somebody' if you are not yourself?"

"When you are dead, it doesn't matter where your home was."

"I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat."

"The only way to entertain some folks is to let them alone."