Will Rogers famous quotes

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

#Book #Reading #Learning

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

#Inspirational #Life #Positive

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

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

#Inspirational #Adversity #May

Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.
-- Will Rogers

#Honesty #Business #Successful

A fool and his money are soon elected.
-- Will Rogers

#Funny #Sarcastic #Fool

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
-- Will Rogers

#Inspirational #Motivational #Moving On

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

#Death #Differences #Government

When a party can't think of anything else they always fall back on Lower Taxes. It has a magic sound to a voter, just like Fairyland is spoken of and dreamed of by all children. But no child has ever seen it; neither has any voter ever lived to see the day when his taxes were lowered. Presidents have been promising lower taxes since Washington crossed the Delaware by hand in a row boat. But our taxes have gotten bigger and their boats have gotten larger until now the President crosses the Delaware in his private yacht.
-- Will Rogers

#Children #Fall #Party

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
-- Will Rogers

#Memories #Office #Voting

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

#Funny #Sarcastic #Witty

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

#Inspirational #Civilization #Rights

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

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.
-- Will Rogers

#Waiting #Lines

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

#Funny #Smile #Money

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
-- Will Rogers

#Funny #Life #Wisdom

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
-- Will Rogers

#Funny #Hilarious #Parenting

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.
-- Will Rogers

#Funny #Hilarious #Humorous

The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back
-- Will Rogers

#Witty #Political #Might

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

#Funny #Humor #Government

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
-- Will Rogers

#Leadership #Summer #Risk

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
-- Will Rogers

#Wisdom #Business #Men

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

#Men

We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.
-- Will Rogers

#History #World #Firsts

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
-- Will Rogers

#Funny Inspirational #Crazy #Anger

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
-- Will Rogers

#Business #Inspiration #Liable

Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.
-- Will Rogers

#Education #College #Pay

Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.
-- Will Rogers

#Funny #Witty #Humorous

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

#Education #Gambling #Film

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
-- Will Rogers

#Letting Go #Humorous #People

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
-- Will Rogers

#Hard Work #Acting #Action

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers

#Inspirational #Happiness #Laughter

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
-- Will Rogers

#Inspirational #Motivational #Hero

Don't just grab at the first thing that comes along. Know when to refuse something that won't get you anywhere
-- Will Rogers

#Firsts #Refuse

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
-- Will Rogers

#Agriculture #Optimist #Farmers

Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.
-- Will Rogers

#Civilization #Taught #Use

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

#Funny #Thinking #Aggravation

Don't wait to buy land, buy land and wait.
-- Will Rogers

#Land #Waiting

The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.
-- Will Rogers

#Two #Fire #Way

Never miss a chance to shut up
-- Will Rogers

#Missing #Chance #Shut Up

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.
-- Will Rogers

#Wise #Coffee #Agriculture

If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.
-- Will Rogers

#Fishing #World #Would Be

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.
-- Will Rogers

#Men #Political

You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one
-- Will Rogers

#Political #Optimist #Democrat

Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.
-- Will Rogers

#Marriage #Taste #Election

Always drink upstream from the herd.
-- Will Rogers

#Leadership #Drinking #Cowboy

The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands.
-- Will Rogers

#Night #Hands #People

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.
-- Will Rogers

#People #Common Sense #Common

You must never tell a thing. You must illustrate it. We learn through the eye and not the noggin.
-- Will Rogers

#Eye

It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.
-- Will Rogers

#Sky #Agriculture #Relief

No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.
-- Will Rogers

#Dog #Silly #Men

Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.
-- Will Rogers

#Gun #Persuasion #Beats

I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World.
-- Will Rogers

#Running #Men #Ideas

There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing.
-- Will Rogers

#Horse #Riding #Prancing

Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.
-- Will Rogers

#Beautiful #Young

Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!
-- Will Rogers

#Running #Men #Texas

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

#Business #Men #Greatness

A Republican moves slowly. They are what we call conservatives. A conservative is a man who has plenty of money and doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't always have plenty of money. A Democrat is a fellow who never had any, but doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't have some.
-- Will Rogers

#Moving #Men #Conservative

Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.
-- Will Rogers

#Cowboy #Cows #Hot

Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.
-- Will Rogers

#Pain #Feelings #Ruins

An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.
-- Will Rogers

#Men #America #Liable

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
-- Will Rogers

#Men #People #Political

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
-- Will Rogers

#Liars #Lying #Golf

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

#Country #Baby #Inspiration

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

#Good Morning #Country #Jobs

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
-- Will Rogers

#Funny #Country #Sarcasm

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
-- Will Rogers

#Funny #Witty #Humorous

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

#Witty #Party #Political

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
-- Will Rogers

#Inspirational #Serious #Seriousness

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
-- Will Rogers

#Inspirational #Education #Work

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
-- Will Rogers

#Business #People #Mind

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
-- Will Rogers

#Prayer #Party #Humorous

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
-- Will Rogers

#Inspirational #Funny #Family

Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb
-- Will Rogers

#Horse #Cowboy #Dumb

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

#Funny #Party #Political

My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.
-- Will Rogers

#Native American #Boat #Mets

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.
-- Will Rogers

#Political #Politics #Would Be

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
-- Will Rogers

#Country #Inspiration #Hamilton

People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.
-- Will Rogers

#Business #Teaching #Giving

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

#Funny #Hilarious #Sarcastic

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

#War #Lasts #Stopping

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

#Witty #Sunset #Political

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
-- Will Rogers

#Prayer #America #United States

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
-- Will Rogers

#Time #Gossip #People

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
-- Will Rogers

#Funny #Sarcastic #Horse

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

#Inspirational #Funny #Girl

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
-- Will Rogers

#Humor #Feet #Pay

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

#Funny #Movie #Witty

In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell
-- Will Rogers

#Real #Eye #Men

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
-- Will Rogers

#Worry #Debt #May

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.
-- Will Rogers

#Dog #Bones #Bigger

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
-- Will Rogers

#Ignorance

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers

#Death #War #Civilization

A vision, without a plan, is just a hallucination.
-- Will Rogers

#Vision #Hallucinations #Plans

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
-- Will Rogers

#Inspiration #Justice #Ignorant

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
-- Will Rogers

#Funny #Sarcastic #Hurt

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

#Running #Country #Government

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers

#Life #Inspiration #Political

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

#Hilarious #Ignorance #Paper

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.
-- Will Rogers

#Funny #California #Oklahoma