Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.

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Spend People Impress Like

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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.

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Believe Doing Just Know

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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

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Being Government Humorist Trick

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Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

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Much Today Too Up

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

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Been Cry Laugh Make

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

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Getting Government Paying Thankful

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Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.

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Like Said Things Worse

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There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

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Electric Fence Few Kinds

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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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Everybody Ignorant Only Subjects

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Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

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Amendment Anybody Anything Colleges

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

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Facts Government Jokes Just

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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

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Art Diplomacy Find Nice

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An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

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Anybody Economist Else Good

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It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

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Costs Counts He Man

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If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

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Build Business Enough Respectable

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The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

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Never School Used

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

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Educated Get He Him

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America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

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America Becoming Belong Educated

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All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

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Ignorance Just Know Papers

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

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Get Good Here Laughs

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I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

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About Day Eight Newspaper

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In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

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Day Enough Fast Hollywood

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When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

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Amateur Athlete College Earned

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One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.

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Ad Forty More Paper

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One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

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People Promote Provide States

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Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

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Advertise Advertiser Advertising Amount

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What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

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Cleaner Country Fingernails Minds

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I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.

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After Calling Father George

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The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

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About Education How Know

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

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Even Get Just Over

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I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

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Been Depressed Enemies Enough

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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

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Ancient Ancient Because Both

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Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

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Due Had Lincoln Look

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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer

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Baby Come Congress Country

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We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

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Able Business Check Crime

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

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Day Just Open Ought

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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

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Find Half Life Our

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If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep

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Any Creek Get Government

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

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Any Creek Get Government

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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.

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Could Evidently Full Hollywood

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America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

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America Gets Getting Inventions

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"41 Will Rogers Quotes & Sayings

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.

Will Rogers

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.

Will Rogers

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Will Rogers

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.

Will Rogers

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Will Rogers

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Will Rogers

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

Will Rogers

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

Will Rogers

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

Will Rogers

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

Will Rogers

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

Will Rogers

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

Will Rogers

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

Will Rogers

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.

Will Rogers

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

Will Rogers

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

Will Rogers

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

Will Rogers

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.

Will Rogers

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Will Rogers

Will Rogers

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

Will Rogers

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer

Will Rogers

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Will Rogers

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep

Will Rogers

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