Will Rogers

"A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs just enough of it to make him hang on when he ought to hang on."

"Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects."

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

"When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging."

"The only way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."

"Common sense ain't common."

"I have always been afraid of banks. I have seen them fail."

"If you want to get rich, you have to think like a rich man."

"Live your life so that whenever you die, you will be a loss."

"The minute you read something and you can't verify it, forget it."

"The more you observe, the more you realize that you don't know anything."

"A zoning law is something that lets you keep someone else from using their property the way they want to."

"Convention is the ruler of the common herd."

"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account."

"The minute a thing is long and complicated, they call it a law."

"If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone, 'America died from a delusion that you could sit in a bank and trade nations to death.'"

"When you are poor, you have to think simple and talk big to live in the world."

"An ignorant person is one that don't know what you have just found out."

"Papers want you to believe that the crime situation is worse than ever before. But I don't believe it."

"I see by the papers that we got everything in the world except money."

"The minute you think of retiring, then you are done."

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

"A man that don't love a horse, there is something the matter with him."

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth, unless you are in politics."

"The more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know."

"I tell you folks, all politics is apple sauce."

"Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money just to lose with."

"Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people."

"You know we are living in a time when it takes all the running you can do to stay in the same place."

"The worst income tax is one that don't bring in no revenue."