Will Rogers

"My education was neglected, but I was born free."

"A debt-free man ain't a poor man."

"In all my years, I ain't never found nothing to beat the happiness of the man that lives in peace with his wife."

"I would rather be the man that bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man that sold it."

"The trees in Siberia are growing in the wrong place."

"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are."

"Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is."

"Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction."

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes."

"You must have been at the bottom of your class."

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

"A man's greatest wealth is measured by the friends he has and the family that loves him."

"The more I see of humanity, the more I like my dog."

"Speed and efficiency have never been the trademark of democracy."

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

"Even if a surgeon operated on you for your own good, it is still an operation."

"The business of America is often placed ahead of the welfare of Americans."

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

"It ain't no disgrace to admit you are ignorant of a thing you have always been ignorant of."

"The Lord gave us two ends: one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then it's been a toss-up which one we used."

"This Country is not where the weak can live by the sweat of somebody else's brow."

"Any nation that doesn't spend enough on libraries is doomed."

"I am not a member of any organized political party; I am a Democrat."

"The only difference between dead and alive is breathing."

"Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need."

"We can't all be heroes because somebody has to stand on the sideline and clap."

"The great secret of life is to find something you love and make it your life's work."

"In these times we live, it is no discredit to a man if he hasn't money; it is a discredit to him if he hasn't brains."

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

"Chaotic action is preferable to any form of orderly inaction."