Quotes About Will Rogers

#1. I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.

Mort Sahl

#2. Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ... deadpan funny ... his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse. Pop is a kind of 'textile genius' who is able to spin, at once, both yarn and rope.

Ron Miles

#3. Will Rogers wasn't helpful to me at all. He was just concerned with his way of doing things. He didn't like me much because I used to wear slacks to the studio, and that was not done much in those days, so I guess he thought I was rather fast.

Maureen O'Sullivan

#4. To paraphrase the great Will Rogers, El Rusho never met a pharmacist he did not like.

Bill Maher

#5. He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart.

Damon Runyon

#6. Will Rogers ... used to come out with a newspaper and pretend he was a
yokel criticizing the intellectuals who ran the government. I come out with
a newspaper and pretend I'm an intellectual making fun of the yokels
running the government.

Mort Sahl

#7. In a way, I'm like Will Rogers, never having met a man I really disliked. I'm not a vamp. I just like men.

Dorothy Stratten

#8. If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. - WILL ROGERS

David Allen

#9. Last night I dreamed I went to hillbilly heaven and you know who greeted me at the gate? The ole cowboy-philosopher himself, Will Rogers.

Tex Ritter

#10. Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.

Willard Scott

#11. A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.

P. J. O'Rourke

#12. Will Rogers became the biggest, most popular, and highest-paid star of every existing media of his time. The biggest star America ever produced. What is even more remarkable, the things he said and wrote remain as relevant and meaningful today as they did 60 and 70 years ago.

Tommy Tune

#13. Will Rogers once said, "Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like."

Joshua Becker

#14. Will Rogers used to say he wouldn't run for president no matter how badly the country needed a comedian.

Will Rogers

#15. I'm like Will Rogers, I never met a man I didn't like ... well, Eichmann maybe.

Jack Benny

#16. I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

Marilyn Monroe

#17. There's two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Will Rogers The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at.

Anna Russell

#18. To paraphrase the great humorist, Will Rogers . . . "We're all ignorant, but only on different subjects".

Wilson Casey

#19. Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.

John F. Kennedy

#20. The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.

Will Rogers

#21. The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.

Will Rogers

#22. The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.

Will Rogers

#23. There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always put a little extra on you for Petty, which is kind of a fine for stupidness.

Will Rogers

#24. Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Will Rogers

#25. You will never get anywhere if you do not do your homework.

Jim Rogers

#26. The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.

Will Rogers

#27. Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help them back to bed again.

Will Rogers

#28. If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.

Will Rogers

#29. And if you call one a real estate agent and he won't sell you anything. He is a REALATOR. It's the same as what the old fashioned real estate agent used to be only the commission is different.

Will Rogers

#30. I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.

Will Rogers

#31. My strongest quality as an actor is taking direction. I will give my performance as a template and if the director gives any instruction, I take that information, process it and morph it into the next take. I love the feeling I get when nailing a scene through direction.

James Preston Rogers

#32. Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

#34. Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.

Will Rogers

#35. I recently learned that in an average lifetime a person walks about sixty-five thousand miles. That's two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you'll use the rest of the miles you're given.

Fred Rogers

#36. 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.

Will Rogers

#37. One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

Will Rogers

#38. A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.

Will Rogers

#39. Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.

Will Rogers

#40. More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.

Will Rogers

#41. He who procrastinates will light the long fuse of dynamite.

Geoff Rogers

#42. The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Will Rogers

#43. People only learn through two things. One is reading and the other is association with smarter people

Will Rogers

#44. I think when young kids can see Jason Collins, myself and Michael Sam, and Abby Wambach and Megan Rapinoe and different athletes come out, it will definitely change and encourage younger gay men and women to play the sport.

Robbie Rogers

#45. What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

Will Rogers

#46. If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Will Rogers

#47. When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

Fred Rogers

#48. Congress is deadlocked and can't act.

Will Rogers

#49. Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.

Will Rogers

#50. Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered by more people than any single human in politics, and he lost. So there is a doubt just whether talking does you good or harm.

Will Rogers

#51. There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Will Rogers

#52. Americans will feed anyone that's not close to them.

Will Rogers

#53. This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Will Rogers

#54. Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

Will Rogers

#55. There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.

Will Rogers

#56. They are having quite an argument over Treasury Secretary Mellon's Tax Bill. Mr. Mellon wants to cut the surtax on the rich, and leave it as is on the poor, as there is more poor than rich. I suppose the majority will win.

Will Rogers

#57. The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

#59. Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

Will Rogers

#60. The trouble with land is that they're not making it anymore.

Will Rogers

#61. There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.

Will Rogers

#62. 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.

Will Rogers

#63. A politician is just like a pickpocket; it's almost impossible to get him to reform.

Will Rogers

#64. I'm one hell of a public speaker, baby. I'm going to let them see the pain, but if you turn around and start treating me like some damaged little victim, I will murder you. In your sleep.

Moira Rogers

#65. I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.

Will Rogers

#66. When we're able to resign ourselves to the wishes that will never come true, there can be enormous energies available within us for whatever we CAN do.

Fred Rogers

#67. Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

Will Rogers

#68. It is better for some one to think you're a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Will Rogers

#69. Common sense is not an issue in politics
it's an affliction.

Will Rogers

#70. When we leave our child in nursery school for the first time, it won't be just our child's feelings about separation that we will have to cope with, but our own feelings as well-from our present and from our past, parents are extra vulnerable to new tremors from old earthquakes.

Fred Rogers

#71. President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over that. The Government never has been accused of being a business man.

Will Rogers

#72. Local conservation programs can help our communities shape thoughtful growth.

Will Rogers

#73. Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.

Will Rogers

#74. Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

Will Rogers

#75. Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he didn't have to pay anything if he didn't make it.

Will Rogers

#76. My hope for all of us is that 'the miles we go before we sleep' will be filled with all the feelings that come from deep caring
delight , sadness, joy, wisdom
and that in all the endings of our life, we will be able to see the new beginnings.

Fred Rogers

#77. 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.

Will Rogers

#78. You must never tell a thing. You must illustrate it. We learn through
the eye and not the noggin.

Will Rogers

#79. Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.

Will Rogers

#80. Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Will Rogers

#81. We are all ignorant. We are just ignorant about different things.

Will Rogers

#82. Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely

Will Rogers

#83. I belong to no organized political party; I'm a Democrat

Will Rogers

#84. My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.

Will Rogers

#85. Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans

Will Rogers

#86. Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.

Will Rogers

#87. All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

#89. If you let women have their way, you will generally get even with them in the end.

Will Rogers

#90. There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

#92. I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like.

Will Rogers

#93. Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know "why" I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved.

Will Rogers

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

Will Rogers

#95. Your health is the most important commodity that you have. Without it, everything will fall apart - relationships, financial wellbeing, career, school, and so on. It is very important to take good care of yourself.

John Rogers

#96. Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.

Will Rogers

#97. You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.

Adrian Rogers

#98. We do more talking progress than we do progressing.

Will Rogers

#99. Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Will Rogers

#100. We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

Will Rogers