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

“When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do — well, that’s Memoirs.”

Source: The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949), Ch. 16

“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.”

Daily Telegram #1597, Will Rogers Finds Larnin' Spoils One For Real Work (4 September 1931)
Daily telegrams

“That's one thing about Republican Presidents. They never went in much for plans. They only had one plan. It says "Boys, my head is turned. Just get it while you can."”

radio broadcast (21 April 1935)
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“Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.”

As quoted in Wit (2003) by Des MacHale, p. 299
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“There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.”

Source: The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949), Ch. 6

“I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that I've every said, and I used it in the FOLLIES of 1922. I said America has a unique record. We never lost a war and we never won a conference in our lives. I believe that we could without any degree of egotism, single-handed lick any nation in the world. But we can't confer with Costa Rica and come home with our shirts on.”

The Will Rogers Book (1972)

“We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory.”

Letter to Al Smith regarding the Democratic party (19 January 1929)
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“advertising […] makes you spend money you haven't got for things you don't want.”

As the Connecticut Yankee Hank Morgan / Sir Boss in the 1931 film A Connecticut Yankee (after Mark Twain). Cf. Ivan G. Shreve Jr: Thrilling days of yesteryear blogspot.de/2009/09 http://thrillingdaysofyesteryear.blogspot.de/2009/09/grey-market-cinema-connecticut-yankee.html. Also quoted in Printers' Ink magazine, volume 156, issue 1 (1931), p. 3 books.google https://books.google.com/books?id=-oULAQAAIAAJ&q=arthur's and Advertising Outdoors Vol. 2, No. 8 (August 1931), p. 19 https://books.google.com/books?id=rZcXAQAAMAAJ&q=definitions, https://books.google.com/books?id=rZcXAQAAMAAJ&q=spend+money = http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/Advertising_Outdoors_1000005193/373 <br class="br">As quoted in ...

“The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.”

"Breaking into the Writing Game"
The Illiterate Digest (1924)

“If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.”