Will Rogers Quotes (368 Quotes)


    The movies enable an actor not only to act but also to sit down in the theater and clap for himself

    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.

    The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the president has to tell 'em.

    If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

    If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.


    Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

    If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled

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

    A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.

    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.

    Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

    Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

    You should pay on things that you buy outside of bare necessities. I think this sales tax is the best tax we have had in years.

    While the Republicans are smart enough to make money, the Democrats are smart enough to get into office every two or three times a century to take it away from them.

    You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.

    We'll show the world we are prosperous, even if we have to go broke to do it.

    If they really want to honor the boys, why don't they let them sit in the stands and have the people march by

    He is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.

    I don't know what humor is. Anything that's funny -- tragedy or anything, it don't make no difference so long as you happen to hit it just right. But there's one thing I'm proud of -- I ain't got it in for anybody. I don't like to make jokes that hurt anybody.

    The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment

    There is good news from Washington today. Congress is deadlocked and can't act.

    You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

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

    Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out.

    If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned

    The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

    There comes Coolidge and does nothing and retires a hero, not only because he hadn't done anything, but because he had done it better than anyone

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

    A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

    Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word.

    If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we would have cause to start to worry.

    Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.

    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.

    Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

    This is the only country that ever went to the poorhouse in an automobile.

    If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway.

    See what will happen to you if you don't stop biting your fingernails.

    The English should give Ireland home rule -- and reserve the motion picture rights.

    No nation ought to be allowed to enter into a war until it's paid for the last one.

    I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

    What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis.

    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.

    Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

    A Congressman is never any better than his roads, and sometimes worse.

    One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.

    The Democrats and Republicans are equally corrupt -- it's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.

    Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game -- it, and high taxes.

    You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.

    People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

    For every nation and every individual, the principal worry is debt.


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