Will Rogers Quotes

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

- Will Rogers

Good, Judgment, Lot, Experience

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

- Will Rogers

Never, Civilization, Will, Equality

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

- Will Rogers

Observation, Minds, Through, Argument

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

- Will Rogers

Learning, Other, Ways, Association

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

- Will Rogers

Why, Mess, Get, Stupidity

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

- Will Rogers

Sell, Town, Would, Ashamed

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

- Will Rogers

Government, Country, Things, Spite

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

- Will Rogers

College, Athlete, Earned, Amateur

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

- Will Rogers

Business, Big, Build, Respectable

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

Republican, Asking, Been, Republican Party

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

- Will Rogers

Father, Him, Bet, Sue

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

- Will Rogers

Holding, Searches, Goods, Accomplice

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

Wet, Year, Your, Pockets

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

- Will Rogers

Education, Everybody, Subjects

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

- Will Rogers

Business, Anybody, Guess, Economist

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.

- Will Rogers

More, Paper, Than, Ad

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

- Will Rogers

Funny, Government, Getting, Paying

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

- Will Rogers

Never, Like, May, Paying

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

- Will Rogers

Will, Someone, Twice, Horn

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

- Will Rogers

Seriously, Comedians, Joke

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.

- Will Rogers

Education, Think, Actual, Spoils

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

- Will Rogers

Government, Working, Whole, Humorist

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

- Will Rogers

Government, Working, Whole, Humorist

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

Morning, Best, Country, President

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.

- Will Rogers

Week, Crowd, Always, Popular

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

Want, Like, Buy, Impress

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

- Will Rogers

War, Week, Soldiers, Starting

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

- Will Rogers

Inaction, Preferable, Orderly

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

- Will Rogers

United, United States, About, Opens

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.

- Will Rogers

Rest, Learn, Observation, Fence

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

- Will Rogers

Better, Prohibition, Than, Liquor

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

Race, Amendment, Works, Prohibition

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

Amendment, Anybody, Works, Prohibition

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, Nothing, Been, Treasury

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.

- Will Rogers

Down, Bad, Memoirs, Bad Ones

An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

- Will Rogers

Never, Been, Onion, Laugh

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

- Will Rogers

Wisdom, Over, Even, Sit

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

- Will Rogers

Business, Tax, Why, Why Not

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

- Will Rogers

Politics, Government, Watch, Report

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

- Will Rogers

Ignorance, Started, Gets, Bounds

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

Government, Rome, Happen, Declined

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

- Will Rogers

Other, Republicans, Cannibal

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

Sports, Game, Been, Sore

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

- Will Rogers

Nation, Other, One Thing, Manage

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

- Will Rogers

Country, Minds, Needs, Fingernails

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

- Will Rogers

Dislike, Only, About, Only Time

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

- Will Rogers

Heroes, Go, Because, Applaud

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

- Will Rogers

Business, Movies, Only, Applaud

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

- Will Rogers

Only Difference, Meets, Every Time

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

- Will Rogers

Day, One Day, Just One, Season

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

Last, Till, Scheme, Stopping

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

Bigger, Go, Save, Payment

Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there.

- Will Rogers

Will, Over, Though, Sit

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

- Will Rogers

Funny, I Am, Democrat, Party

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

- Will Rogers

Politics, Admit, Other, Party

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

- Will Rogers

I Am, Belong, Democrat, Party

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

- Will Rogers

Golf, Income, Made, Income Tax

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

- Will Rogers

About, Least, Sought, Women Are

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

Finance, Some, Till, Savings

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

Important, Never, Some, Vote

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

- Will Rogers

Legal, Lawyers, Getting, Guide

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

- Will Rogers

Legal, Crime, Pay, Lawyer

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

- Will Rogers

Movies, Movie, Still, Movie Star

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

- Will Rogers

Think, Nation, Getting, Odd

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

Government, United States, President

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

- Will Rogers

Horse, Racing, Missionaries, Horse Racing

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

My Life, Think, Half, All My Life

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

- Will Rogers

Fly, Always, Landing, Rage

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

Run, Nation, Being, Account

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

- Will Rogers

Left, Raised, Moved, Oklahoma

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

- Will Rogers

Constitution, Protects, Our, Senators

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

- Will Rogers

Cat, Bag, Lot, Easier

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

Love, Doing, Want, Successful

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

- Will Rogers

Truth, Hurts, Proportion, Remark

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

- Will Rogers

Humor, Everything, Else, Happening

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

- Will Rogers

Trouble, Know, Us, Gives

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

- Will Rogers

Art, Rock, Diplomacy, Saying

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

- Will Rogers

United States, One-Third, Promote

So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

- Will Rogers

Doing, Other, Different Way, Fellow

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.

- Will Rogers

Other, Cheaper, Dumping, Fellow

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

- Will Rogers

Ignorance, Know, Read, Alibi

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

- Will Rogers

Life, Here, Get, Spell

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

- Will Rogers

Me, Practice, One-Third, Explanation

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

- Will Rogers

Product, Same, Amount, Improving

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

Them, Amount, Spent, Improving

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

Best, Worst Thing, May, Happens

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

- Will Rogers

Fast, See, Hollywood, Olympics

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

- Will Rogers

Newspaper, Town, Read, Newspapers

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

- Will Rogers

Government, A Good Thing, Good Thing

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

- Will Rogers

Government, Country, Same, Gets

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

- Will Rogers

Never, Used, Schools

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

- Will Rogers

Best, Through, Best Way, Difficulty

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

- Will Rogers

Politics, More, Than, Jail

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

- Will Rogers

Best, Take, Too, Serious

A fool and his money are soon elected.

- Will Rogers

Money, Politics, His, Elected

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

- Will Rogers

Yesterday, Use, Too, Much

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

- Will Rogers

War, New, New Way, Advance

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

- Will Rogers

Know, Person, Found, Ignorant

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

- Will Rogers

Optimist, Still, He, Farmer

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

- Will Rogers

Money, Politics, Lot, Takes

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

- Will Rogers

Die, Lawyers, Nothing, Beat

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

- Will Rogers

Week, Diplomacy, Take, Flat

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

- Will Rogers

Education, Educated, Belong, Novelty

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

- Will Rogers

Why, Democrats, Other, Agreed

Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.

- Will Rogers

More, Making, Buy, Stuff

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

- Will Rogers

Art, Money, Convincing, Something

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

- Will Rogers

Never, United, United States, Won

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

- Will Rogers

Work, Practice, Liberty, Speeches

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

- Will Rogers

Wisdom, Fruit, Sometimes, Limb

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

- Will Rogers

Never, Yesterday, Too, Too Much

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

- Will Rogers

Funny, Never, See, Places

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

- Will Rogers

Trying, Through, Half, Rushed

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.

- Will Rogers

Year, Last, Last Year, Said

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

- Will Rogers

Hollywood, Read, Learned, Woods

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

- Will Rogers

Business, Costs, Counts, Pay

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

- Will Rogers

Educated, Nothing, Get, Stupid

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

- Will Rogers

Education, Movies, One Thing

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

- Will Rogers

Die, Know, About, Main Thing

Things ain't what they used to be and never were.

- Will Rogers

Never, Things, Were, Used

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

- Will Rogers

Hero, Profession, About, Earth

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

- Will Rogers

Truth, You, Ever, Politics

Politics is applesauce.

- Will Rogers

Politics

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