Will Rogers

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

“It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.”

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

“I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.”

“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.”

“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”

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

“There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.”

“I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.”

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

“If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.”

“The best way out of a difficulty is through it.”

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

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

“Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.”

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

“Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.”

“On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.”

“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.”

“Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.”

“People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.”