Here are 40 aphorisms from Will Rogers, the famous American humorist, cowboy, and social commentator:
Here are 40 notable aphorisms from Will Rogers:
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.”
“I never met a man I didn’t like.”
“There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.”
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
“It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.”
“The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.”
“You can’t say that civilization don’t advance… in every war, they kill you in a new way.”
“We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.”
“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.”
“I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”
“A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.”
“Life is like a dog sled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.”
“I don’t know much about politics, but I can tell you this: It’s the same in every country.”
“We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.”
“The best way to make a good deal is to have a good deal to make.”
“There’s a lot of difference between a man who knows what he’s talking about and a man who just thinks he knows.”
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
“If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.”
“The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.”
“A good teacher, like a good entertainer, first must hold his audience’s attention.”
“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.”
“The more you say, the less people remember.”
“A man who robs Peter to pay Paul usually scores high with Paul.”
“Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.”
“The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.”
“The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they backfire.”
“You can be on the right track, but if you don’t move, you’ll get run over.”
“If you’re not in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
“Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect.”
“The future is not a gift; it is an achievement.”
“We will never have true civilization until we have a good government.”
“The man who is truly good is not the one who is good to his friends, but the one who is good to his enemies.”
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
“The biggest troublemaker you’ll probably ever have to deal with watches you from the mirror every morning.”
“If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You change it by being involved.”
“The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.”
“Just because you’re on a diet doesn’t mean you can’t eat cake. Just means you can’t eat all the cake.”
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