Will Rogers

“Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.”

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

“The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.”

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

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

“I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.”

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

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

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

“The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.”

“Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.”

“When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.”

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

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

“When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.”

“The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.”

“Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.”

“Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.”

“If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.”

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