"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession……" — Will Rogers

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

— Will Rogers

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622 Quotes by Will Rogers

Will Rogers has 622 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to…
The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back
So the question rises: How much liberty can you get away with? Well, you get no more liberty than you…
No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend;…
A fool and his money are soon elected.
She was so ugly she could make a mule back away from an oat bin.
Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have…
I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries,…
There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.
The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.
Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.
Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which…

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More Earth Quotes

This quote is filed under Earth Quotes, one of 10,102 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and… — Neil Armstrong
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for… — Neil Armstrong
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much… — Neil Armstrong
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on… — Margaret Atwood
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann

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