Famous Quotes

Quotes by Will Rogers

• Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
• 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.
• 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.
• People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
• Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
• Politics is applesauce.
• So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
• Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
• The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
• 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?'
• The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
• The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
• The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
• The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
• The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
• 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.
• The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
• 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.
• There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
• There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
• There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
• There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
• Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
• This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
• We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
• We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
• We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
• 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.
• 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.
• You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.