Top 725 Quotes & Sayings by Will Rogers

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Will Rogers.

Last updated on September 11, 2024.

William Penn Adair Rogers was an American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator. He was born as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory, and is known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son". As an entertainer and humorist, he traveled around the world three times, made 71 films, and wrote more than 4,000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns. By the mid-1930s, Rogers was hugely popular in the United States for his leading political wit and was the highest paid of Hollywood film stars. He died in 1935 with aviator Wiley Post when their small airplane crashed in northern Alaska.

American - Actor | November 4, 1879 - August 15, 1935

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

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

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

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

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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.

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Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

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

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

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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.

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

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When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

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

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Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

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

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

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

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A fool and his money are soon elected.

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

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Politics is applesauce.

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

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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.

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What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

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

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

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

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

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

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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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

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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.

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

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Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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