Top 100 Will Rogers Quotes
#1. You know, a Communist's whole life work is based on complaint of how everything is done ... So if they ever get their country running good they will defeat their own cause.
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#2. Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.
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#3. There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.
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#4. I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'
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#5. I have often said in answer to inquiries as to how I got away with kidding some of our public men, that it was because I liked all of them personally, and that if there was no malice in your heart there could be none in your "Gags", and I have always said I never met a man I dident like.
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#6. If we could just go back the last two or three years and do our buying a little more carefully, why ... we would be O.K.
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#7. Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
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#8. My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.
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#9. There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.
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#10. Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
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#11. There will never be a time when the old horse is not superior to any auto ever made.
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#12. I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.
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#13. If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
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#15. The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
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#16. My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.
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#17. Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.
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#18. Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion.
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#19. A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.
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#20. I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
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#21. I'm not a member of an organized party. I'm a Democrat.
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#22. One of these days they are going to remove so much of the 'hooey' and the thousands of things the schools have become clogged up with, and we will find that we can educate our broods for about one-tenth of the price and learn 'em something that they might accidentally use after they escape.
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#23. The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
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#24. Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.
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#25. Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.
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#26. Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt ... all just to make some easy money quick.
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#27. In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell
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#28. There is two things that can disrupt business in this country. One is War, and the other is a meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank.
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#29. Will somebody please tell me what they do with all the Vice-Presidents a bank has? Why the United States is the biggest business institution in the world, and they got only one Vice-President and nobody has ever found anything for him to do.
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#30. There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works.
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#31. We know lots of things we didn't use to know but we don't know any way to prevent 'em from happening.
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#32. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your back pocket.
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#33. Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.
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#34. Well, the disarmament conference is off to a flying start. There is nothing to prevent their succeeding now but human nature.
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#35. If you can't identify it, don't stick it in your mouth.
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#36. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
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#38. I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.
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#39. Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.
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#40. I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.
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#41. The deer season just opened. A deer hunter in Ventura Country brought in his first man yesterday.
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#42. The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.
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#43. I am telling folks that the Country as a whole is "Sound," and that all those who's heads are solid are bound to get back into the market again. I tell 'em that this Country is bigger than Wall Street, and if they don't believe it, I show 'em the map.
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#44. Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
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#45. You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
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#46. The problem ain't what people know. It's what people know that ain't so that's the problem.
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#47. The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.
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#48. The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now. Well, there is millions and millions that are not making it, that would be glad to give up 99 per cent if you would let 'em earn a hundred thousand or more.
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#49. Out here I had been putting what little money I had in Ocean Frontage, for the sole reason that there was only so much of it and no more, and that they wasent making any more ...
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#50. You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the ones in the various federal prisons, it brings your total membership up to around thirty thousand.
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#51. The United States investigates everything - usually after it's dead.
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#52. Even if you are on the right track, but just sit there, you will still get run over.
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#53. Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.
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#54. So the question rises: How much liberty can you get away with? Well, you get no more liberty than you give!
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#55. Real estate is the best investment in the world because it is the only thing they're not making any more.
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#56. We fed 'em Xmas and New Years; now all the poor have to do is just fill the few meals until next Xmas
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#57. Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it's not to his horsemanship.
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#58. There is not a better day in the world to be spent than with a lot of wise old cowmen around barbecued beef, black coffee and good free holy beans.
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#59. Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses.
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#60. A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
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#61. If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
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#62. Coolidge has the best idea on this farm relief. He said, 'Farmers, you are in a hole. I can't help you, but I will get in with you.' He did. That made it fine so the farmers were satisfied as long as Coolidge was going to get in with them.
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#63. If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there
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#64. Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.
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#65. America is the first country where people go to the poor house in their car.
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#66. If everybody (traded his car for a horse) they would be out of debt in a couple of years. Just think, no gas, no tires, no roads to pay for.
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#67. It's the greatest game I ever saw. You can't lose. Everybody buys to sell and nobody buys to keep. What's worrying me is who is going to be the last owner. It's just like an auction; the only one stuck is the last one.
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#68. One thing we got to be thankful for our Soldiers can win wars faster than our Diplomats can talk us into them,
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#69. Don't wait to buy land, buy land and wait.
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#70. Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
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#71. What's considered enough money? Just a little bit more.
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#72. Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for the criminally insane actually read one once clear through. Then he did something about it. He made a bonfire that lasted a week.
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#73. I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes-I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em
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#74. Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
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#75. One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else
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#76. A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.
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#77. Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper.
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#78. There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
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#79. It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
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#80. Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
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#81. 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?
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#82. There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don't take much to see that something is wrong, but it does take some eyesight to see what will put it right again
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#83. If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending when we didn't have it put us where we are today. Saving when we've got it will get us back to where we was before we went cuckoo.
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#84. If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.
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#85. I love horses and I only ask-don't let me know which one we are eating today.
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#86. After seeing kids play polo against big guys, it only shows that horses are the greatest equalizer in the world. No matter what you weigh, the little fellow is your equal on a horse.
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#87. Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
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#88. If stupidity got us in this mess, how come it can't get us out.
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#89. There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable.
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#90. Foreign relations is an open book
generally a checkbook.
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#91. George Bernard Shaw of England stopped over just long enough to make one speech in Bombay, India, started a war and 100 Indians killed each other. That's what I call good speech-making. The only enthusiasm any of our speakers can rouse is a demand to kill the speaker.
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#92. The man who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing.
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#93. When a fellow ain't got much mind, it don't take him long to make it up.
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#94. I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.
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#95. The self persists like a dying star, In sleep, afraid.
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#96. Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience more people, stop more traffic, cause more accidents, entail more expense, and commit and cause I don't remember the other hundred misdemeanors.
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#97. Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.
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#98. We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.
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#99. Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
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#100. The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?
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