Will Rogers Quotes

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

~ Will Rogers

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

~ Will Rogers

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

~ Will Rogers

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

~ Will Rogers

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

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

~ Will Rogers

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

~ Will Rogers

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

~ Will Rogers

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.

~ Will Rogers

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

~ Will Rogers

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.

~ Will Rogers

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

~ Will Rogers

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

~ Will Rogers

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

~ Will Rogers

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

~ Will Rogers

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

~ Will Rogers

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

~ Will Rogers

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

~ Will Rogers

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

~ Will Rogers

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

~ Will Rogers

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

~ Will Rogers

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

~ Will Rogers

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

~ Will Rogers

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

~ Will Rogers

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

~ Will Rogers

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

~ Will Rogers

A fool and his money are soon elected.

~ Will Rogers

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

~ Will Rogers

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

~ Will Rogers

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

~ Will Rogers

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

~ Will Rogers

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.

~ Will Rogers

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

~ Will Rogers

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

~ Will Rogers

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

~ Will Rogers

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

~ Will Rogers

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

~ Will Rogers

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

~ Will Rogers

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

~ Will Rogers

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.

~ Will Rogers